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Polyp
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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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Words linked to "Polyp" :
growth
,
sessile polyp
,
cnidarian
,
polypus
,
phylum Coelenterata
,
adenomatous polyp
,
pedunculated polyp
,
Cnidaria
,
coelenterate
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