moss animal in English

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a sedentary colonial aquatic animal found chiefly in the sea, either encrusting rocks, seaweeds, or other surfaces, or forming stalked fronds. Each minute zooid filter-feeds by means of a crown of ciliated tentacles (lophophore).
Bryozoans, or ‘ moss animals ,’ are aquatic, mostly marine, colonial organisms, superficially rather like coral.
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1. Their name, Bryozoan, translates from Latin as “moss animal”

2. Alemannisch: Mieschtierli беларуская: Імшанкі Deutsch: Moostierchen English: Bryozoan, Moss animal eesti: Sammalloomad Nordfriisk: Mööskdiarten

3. Moss animal, any member of the phylum Bryozoa (also called Polyzoa or Ectoprocta), in which there are about 5,000 extant species

4. Moss animal, also called Bryozoan, any member of the phylum Bryozoa (also called Polyzoa or Ectoprocta), in which there are about 5,000 extant species

5. 6, 2017 (Moss animal, also called Bryozoan, any member of the phylum Bryozoa (also called Polyzoa or Ectoprocta), in which there are about 5,000 extant species

6. Bryozoa - marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids phylum Bryozoa, polyzoa animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals Bryozoan, moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss - sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a …