entoproct

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[en-tuh-prokt] / ˈɛn təˌprɒkt /

noun

Zoology.

1. any of various sessile, chiefly marine, mosslike animals of the phylum Entoprocta (formerly a subphylum of Bryophyta), occasionally solitary polyps but usually forming branching colonies, each individual polyp having an almost closed ring of tentacles within which lie the mouth and anus.

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adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the phylum Entoprocta.

Etymology

Origin of entoproct

First recorded in 1935–40; Entoprocta

Example Sentences

However this reinterpretation of Cotyledion tylodes as an entoproct places the fossil record of this group in the earlier Cambrian period.

From BBC