tunicate

Borrowed from Latin tunicatus, past participle of tunicare (“to clothe with a tunic”).

tunicate (plural tunicates)

1. Any of very many chordate marine animals, of the subphyla Tunicata or Urochordata, including the sea squirts.

tunicate (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to these animals.
2. (anatomy, botany) Enclosed in a tunic or mantle; covered or coated with layers.
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 404:

     This tunicate withered hag the Señora had my financial number.

3. (zoology) Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects.

• endotunica
• exotunica

tunicāte

1. vocative masculine singular of tunicātus

tunicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tunicō