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Polyp   Listen
noun
Polyp  n.  (Zool.)
(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 (Zool.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.






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"Polyp" Quotes from Famous Books



... The cilia then disappear, a mouth is formed at the free end, tentacles, first four (3), then eight, and at length as many as thirty (4), are formed, and the little creature resembles in essentials the freshwater polyp (Hydra) ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock

... got a parrot-mouth. Some folks like 'em." Here the dealer would pull open the creature's flabby lips, and discover a beak like that of a polyp; and the cleansing process on the grass ...
— Buying a Horse • William Dean Howells

... whole, and that Acalephs as a whole are inferior to Echinoderms as a whole. But if they are linked together as a connected series, then the lowest Acaleph should stand next in structure above the highest Polyp, and the lowest Echinoderm next above the highest Acaleph. So far from this being the case, there are, on the contrary, many Acalephs which, in their specialization, are unquestionably lower in the scale of life than some Polyps, while ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IX., March, 1862., No. LIII. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics, • Various



Words linked to "Polyp" :   Cnidaria, coelenterate, polypus, growth, phylum Coelenterata, Coelenterata, cnidarian, sessile polyp, adenomatous polyp, phylum Cnidaria



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