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


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