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Webster 1913 Edition
Polypite
Pol′y-pite
,Noun.
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of
Campanularian
. (b)
Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.
2.
(Paleon.)
A fossil coral.
Webster 1828 Edition
Polypite
POL'YPITE
,Noun.