sea squirt

noun

: ascidian

Examples of sea squirt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Leatherback sea turtles enjoy a gelatinous diet of jellyfish and sea squirts, the WWF reports. —Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025

The skeleton-like lines of this new sea squirt are actually blood vessels that run through the sea squirt's gills, the researchers say. —Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024

The sea squirt provided the crab with the perfect stage to feed. —Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024

Other images on the shortlist include a decorator crab perching on a sea squirt, a gecko attempting to fight off a goshawk and a resting Weddell seal. —Jack Guy, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024

Stuck to rocks, shells, and piers in oceans around the world is a strange little creature called a sea squirt. —Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024

Previously, researchers had mapped parts of the much smaller brains of a larval marine worm (78 neurons), a larval sea squirt (177 neurons) and an adult roundworm (302 neurons). —Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024

It’s widely understood that CBD and the Protocol only pertain to physical materials — microbes, plants, compounds from a sea squirt — not genetic sequences. —Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024

Proud members of the sea squirt family, these amorphous blobs are essentially little water pumps, pumping water in and out of the bodies and extracting nutrients along the way. —Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 10 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sea squirt

• alert
• assert
• avert
• dessert
• divert
• evert
• exert
• inert
• insert
• invert
• nightshirt
• overt