ascidie
French, noun/a.si.di/
ascidie is spelled A-S-C-I-D-I-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ascidie is a French feminine noun meaning “ascidian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Organe creux de certaines plantes carnivores, destiné à piéger leurs proies”.
What does ascidie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineascidian
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Organe creux de certaines plantes carnivores, destiné à piéger leurs proies. 2. Nom donné aux animaux marins appartenant à la classe des Ascidiacea dans le sous-embranchement des tuniciers (Tunicata), et qui sont les plus primitifs des chordés, embranchement dont font partie les vertébrés. Note d’usage : Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ascidie
- ascidies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ascidie?
- /a.si.di/
- \a.si.di\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ascidie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ascidie in French?
ascidie appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).