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polype |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Polype \Pol"ype\, n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.) See {Polyp}. 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["o]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["o]l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.
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