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n. [L. cribrum, sieve; porus, passage](PORIFERA)1. A specialized exhalant structure of sponges where several exhalant systems combine to empty into a subsurface cavity.2. In Polymastia (Demospongiae) an inhalent pore.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.