POLYP

polyp

(noun) 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”

polyp, polypus

(noun) a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

polyp (plural polyps)

(medicine) an abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane

(zoology) a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles

Anagrams

• loppy

Source: Wiktionary

Pol"yp, n. Etym: [L. polypus, Gr. 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.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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