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Polyp
Pol′yp
,Noun.
[L.
polypus
, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], literally, many-footed; πολύσ
many + [GREEK], [GREEK], foot: cf. F. polype
. See Poly-
and Foot
, and cf. Polypode
, Polypody
, Poulp
.] (Zool.)
(a)
One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
(b)
One of the Anthozoa.
(c)
pl.
[Written also
polype
.] Fresh-water polyp
, the hydra.
– Polyp stem
(Zool.)
, that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.
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See also: Polyp
English
Noun
polyp (plural polyps)
- (medicine) an abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane
- (zoology) a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles
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Translations
growth
coelenterate