Definition of Polip
Pol"yp (?), n. [L. polypus, Gr.
&?;, &?;, literally, many-footed; poly`s many + &?;, &?;,
foot: cf. F. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf.
Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.] (Zoöl.)
(a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a
hydroid or coral. (b) One of the
Anthozoa. (c) pl. Same as
Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria,
Hydroid. [Written also polype.]
Fresh-water polyp, the hydra. --
Polyp stem (Zoöl.), that portion of
the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding
zooids.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (medicine) a benign tumor protruding from a mucous membrane
- (biology) a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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