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Polyp

noun

A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane. Synonym: 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.

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"Polyp" Quotes from Famous Books

... the hard skeleton of a little animal, known as the Coral Polyp. The rest of the polyp's body is soft jelly, which many fish regard as good food. The Sea Anemone—another jelly-animal—is first cousin to the Coral Polyp. And we may call the Jellyfish second cousin to these two, for it is in the same big ...

— Within the Deep - Cassell's "Eyes And No Eyes" Series, Book VIII. • R. Cadwallader Smith

... from hypostatic penumonia. Healed gastric ulcer. Moderate arteriosclerosis, slight cardial hypertrophy. Granular cystic kidneys. Mucous polyp and subperitoneal fibromyoma of uterus. The brain was macroscopically normal, but showed superficial gliosis (frontal and precentral) and thinning out of ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... Reproduction.—A peculiar kind of reproduction is observed in a variety of polyp, a curious animal which very much resembles a shrub in appearance. It attaches itself to some solid object, and then, as it grows, sends out little protuberances resembling buds. Some of these separate and fall off, swimming about as separate animals. ...

— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

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