ENTOPROCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entoproct mean? 

• ENTOPROCT (noun)
  The noun ENTOPROCT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ENTOPROCT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTOPROCT (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:

Nouns denoting animals

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)