ectoproct, a. and n. Zool.
(ˈɛktəʊprɒkt)
[ad. mod.L. Ectoprocta, name of a phylum or subphylum, f. ecto- + Gr. πρωκτός anus.]
A. adj. = ectoproctous a. s.v. ecto-. B. n. An ectoproctous animal.
| 1933 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. LXXV. 393 The ciliary feeding mechanism of the Entoproct Polyzoa does not seem to have been worked out in any detail, as has that of the Ectoproct Polyzoa. 1959 [see chilostome a. and n.]. 1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms i. 16 That group of the animal kingdom generally referred to as the minor coelomates, that is the sipunculids, phoronids, ectoprocts, brachiopods, hemichordates, etc. 1974 Nature 8 Feb. 396/1 Glaciomarine beds spanning some 250 m at the base of the Dwyka succession in South West Africa have yielded..the ectoproct Dyscritella. 1977 J. Cohen Reproduction i. 5 The statoblasts of ectoproct Bryozoa. |