- phylum Ectoprocta
- nouncoextensive with or a subphylum of Bryozoa• Syn: ↑Ectoprocta• Hypernyms: ↑phylum• Member Holonyms: ↑Bryozoa, ↑phylum Bryozoa, ↑polyzoa• Member Meronyms: ↑ectoproct
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phylum Ectoprocta
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phylum Bryozoa — noun marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids • Syn: ↑Bryozoa, ↑polyzoa • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Animalia, ↑kingdom Animalia, ↑animal kingdom … Useful english dictionary
Ectoprocta — noun coextensive with or a subphylum of Bryozoa • Syn: ↑phylum Ectoprocta • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Bryozoa, ↑phylum Bryozoa, ↑polyzoa • … Useful english dictionary
Phylum — Embranchement (biologie) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Embranchement (homonymie). En systématique, l embranchement (en anglais phylum) est le deuxième niveau de classification classique (c est à dire n utilisant pas la notion de Rang) des… … Wikipédia en Français
phylum Cycliophora — noun tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta • Syn: ↑Cycliophora • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member… … Useful english dictionary
Ectoprocta — /ek teuh prok teuh/, n. the phylum Bryozoa, esp. as distinguished from the phylum Entoprocta by a body plan having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles. [ < NL, equiv. to Gk ekto ECTO + prokta, neut. pl. of PROKTOS, adj. deriv. of … Universalium
Bryozoa — Temporal range: Upper Cambrian–Recent[1] … Wikipedia
moss animal — bryozoan. [1880 85] * * * ▪ invertebrate Introduction also called bryozoan, any member of the phylum Bryozoa (also called Polyzoa or Ectoprocta), in which there are about 5,000 extant species. Another 15,000 species are known only from… … Universalium
Bryozoa — noun marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids • Syn: ↑phylum Bryozoa, ↑polyzoa • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Animalia, ↑kingdom Animalia, ↑animal kingdom … Useful english dictionary
polyzoa — noun marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids • Syn: ↑Bryozoa, ↑phylum Bryozoa • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Animalia, ↑kingdom Animalia, ↑animal kingdom … Useful english dictionary
ectoproct — noun sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles • Hypernyms: ↑invertebrate • Member Holonyms: ↑Ectoprocta, ↑phylum Ectoprocta … Useful english dictionary
