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en•to•proct
Pronunciation: (en'tu-prokt"), [key]—
n. Zool.
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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adj.
belonging or pertaining to the phylum Entoprocta. Also called
endoproct. Cf.
ectoproct.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.