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Webster 1913 Edition

Ectoprocta

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Ecˊto-proc′ta

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἐκτόσ

outside outside + [GREEK] the anus.]

(Zoöl.)

An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.