PROSOPYLE


Meaning of PROSOPYLE in English

/pros"euh puyl'/ , n.

(in sponges) a pore through which water is drawn from the outside into one of the saclike chambers formed by the evagination of the body wall. Cf. apopyle .

[ 1885-90; próso forward + pýle gate ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .