Polyp : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Polyp	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
polyp n a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane Synonym(s): polyp, polypus 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; "in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Polyp \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}.] (Zo[94]l.) (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} (Zo[94]l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.