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Polyp   /pˈɑlɪp/   Listen
Polyp

noun
1.
A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane.  Synonym: polypus.
2.
One of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth.



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"Polyp" Quotes from Famous Books



... buds of the stony tree form each its special deposit, which it bequeaths in dying to the general mass. In short, as the tender shoot of the oak is filled by degrees with the wood which forms within it, and hardens into a branch, that goes on increasing by perpetually new growths, so the jelly polyp of the polypidom hardens below into stone and dies incessantly at the base, while it lives on indefinitely above ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace

... but it may be many years before the damage is wholly repaired and the original beauty of the garden restored, for the "growth" of coral—the skeletons of the polyps—is methodical and very slow. We speak of coral as if it were a plant, yet the reproduction is by means of eggs, and the polyp is as much an animal as a ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... of Nature[3] seem to have been more definitely evolutionist than those of his predecessors, in this sense, at least, that he recognised not only an ascending scale, but a genetic series from polyp to man and an age-long movement towards perfection. "It is due to the resistance of matter to form that Nature can only rise by degrees from lower to higher types." "Nature produces those things which, being continually moved by a certain principle contained ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

... in more confusion than can easily be imagined; entered the torture chamber, entered the inquisition, entered the tentacles of that sly and beaming polyp, le ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

... is this form of change inconsistent with the preservation of individualism, that we actually find outside of the body an exactly similar process, occurring in individual and independent animals, in the familiar drama of coral-building. The coral polyp saturates itself with the lime-salts of the sea-water, much as the bone-corpuscles with those of the blood and lymph, and thus protects itself in life and becomes the flying buttress of ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson

... they find God at all, they must find him through heathenism. The pagan religions are the effort of man to feel after God. Otherwise we must conclude that the Being without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground, the Being who never puts an insect into the air or a polyp into the water without providing it with some appropriate food, so that it may live and grow, has left the vast majority of his human children, made with religious appetences of conscience, reverence, hope, without a corresponding nutriment of truth. This view tends ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke



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



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