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Definition of Entoproct
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Entoproct
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entoproct
Literary usage of Entoproct
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1899)
"As the name implies, its distinguishing generic characteristic is the possession
of a muscular calyx, a feature not possessed by any other entoproct known. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"These are (1) the absence in the entoproct larva of an adhesive organ ; (2) the
presence of a rudiment of the cerebral ganglion (dorsal organ), ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"... calyces may have some relation to the formation of the " brown bodies " in
the Ectoprocta. Another entoproct ..."
4. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"... from which blood is sent over the body. Vesicula seminalis. A sperm-sac in
the male animal. Vestibule. The depression within the lophophore in entoproct ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"A simple nerve ganglion between mouth and anus, a Urge body-cavity (except in
entoproct»), ample gonads without accessory glands or ducts, usually testis ..."
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