Associations to the word «Ectoproct»

Wiktionary

ECTOPROCT, noun. A Bryozoa or Ectoprocta, a microscopic sessile moss-like aquatic animal (having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles), forming a colony.

Dictionary definition

ECTOPROCT, noun. Sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope