prosopyle

prosopyle
/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; < Gk próso forward + pýle gate]

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