polyp

[Pol·yp]

A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane

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One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

Noun
one of two forms that coelenterates take e.g. a hydra or coral: usually sedentary and has a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth

Noun
a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane


n.
One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

n.
One of the Anthozoa.

n.
Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.


Polyp

Pol"yp , n. [L. polypus, Gr. , , literally, many-footed; many + , , foot: cf. F. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf. Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.] (Zo'94l.) (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'94l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.

One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

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