prosopyle

[ pros-uh-pahyl ]

noun
  1. (in sponges) a pore through which water is drawn from the outside into one of the saclike chambers formed by the evagination of the body wall.

Origin of prosopyle

1
1885–90; <Greek prósō forward + pýlē gate

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