ectoproct

A noun referring to a sessile, mossy aquatic animal characterized by having the anus of the polyp located outside the crown of tentacles.

• 🇨🇳名词，指一类营固着生活、形似苔藓的水生群体动物，其个体（虫体）的肛门位于触手冠之外。

1. Aquatic invertebrate C2 formal scientific

   A small, sessile, moss-like aquatic animal that forms colonies, characterized by having the anus located outside the ring of tentacles.

   • Ectoprocts are often found encrusting on rocks and seaweed in marine environments.
   • The colony of ectoprocts resembled a delicate, calcified lace.
   • Scientists studied the feeding behavior of ectoprocts in the tide pool.

   🇨🇳水生无脊椎动物

   同义词: bryozoanpolyzoan

• ectoprocts plural form
• ectoprocts' possessive plural form
• ectoproct's possessive singular form