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ENTOPROCT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various moss-like aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp having a both mouth and anus within a closed ring of tentacles
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("entoproct" is a kind of...):
invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)
Holonyms ("entoproct" is a member of...):
Endoprocta; Entoprocta; phylum Entoprocta (sometimes considered a subphylum of Bryozoa)