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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.
Fossil polype.

Definition 2024


polypite

polypite

English

Noun

polypite (plural polypites)

  1. (rare) A fossil polyp
  2. (rare) An individual polyp of a colonial cnidarian