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En`to*moph"a*gan (?), a. (Zoöl.) Relating to the Entomophaga. -- n. One of the Entomophaga.

En`to*moph"a*gous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Feeding on insects; insectivorous.

En`to*moph"i*lous (?), a. [Gr. &?; insect + &?; a lover.] (Bot.) Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.

||En`to*mos"tra*ca (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; cut in pieces + &?; burnt clay, the hard shell of Testacea.] (Zoöl.) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.

En`to*mos"tra*can (?), a. (Zoöl.) Relating to the Entomostraca. -- n. One of the Entomostraca.

En`to*mos"tra*cous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Entomostracans.

En`to*mot"o*mist (?), n. One who practices entomotomy.

En`to*mot"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; insect + te`mnein to cut.] The science of the dissection of insects.

En*ton"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; strained, fr. &?; to strain. See Entasis.] (Med.) Having great tension, or exaggerated action. Dunglison.

En`to*pe*riph"er*al (?), a. [Ento- + peripheral.] (Physiol.) Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

En"to*phyte (?), n. [Ento- + Gr. &?; a plant.] (Med.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

En`to*phyt"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.

En"to*plasm (?), n. [Ento- + Gr. &?; anything formed.] (Biol.) (a) The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. (b) Endosarc.

En`to*plas"tic (?), a. [Ento- + Gr. &?; to mold.] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.

En`to*plas"tron (?), n.; pl. Entoplastra (#). [Ento- + plastron.] (Anat.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.

||En`to*proc"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; within + &?; the anus.] (Zoöl.) A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.

Ent*op"tic (?), a. [Ent- + optic.] (Physiol.) Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.

Ent*or"gan*ism (?), n. [Ent- + organism.] (Biol.) An internal parasitic organism.

En*tor`ti*la"tion (?), n. [F. entortiller to twist; pref. en- (L. in) + tortiller to twist.] A turning into a circle; round figures. [Obs.] Donne.

||En`to*ster"num (?), n.; pl. Entosterna (#). [NL. See Ento-, and Sternum.] (Anat.) See Entoplastron. - - En`to*ster"nal (#), a.

En*tos"tho*blast (?), n. [Gr. 'e`ntosthe from within + -blast.] (Biol.) The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell. Agassiz.

En`to*tho"rax (?), n. [Ento- + thorax.] (Zoöl.) See Endothorax.

Ent*ot"ic (?), a. [Ent- + Gr. &?;, &?;, the ear.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the interior of the ear.

||En`to*zo"a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; within + &?; an animal.] (Zoöl.) 1. A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.

2. An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.

{ En`to*zo"al (?), En`to*zo"ic (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.

En`to*zo*öl"o*gist (?), n. [Entozoön + -logy + -ist.] One versed in the science of the Entozoa.