Polyp Definition

pŏlĭp
polyps
noun
polyps
Any of various cnidarians, colonial or individual, having a mouth fringed with many small, slender tentacles bearing stinging cells at the top of a tubelike body, as the sea anemone or hydra.
Webster's New World
A smooth projecting growth of hypertrophied mucous membrane in the nasal passages, bladder, rectum, etc.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
polyp
Plural:
polyps

Origin of Polyp

  • Middle English polip nasal tumor from Old French polipe from Latin pōlypus cuttlefish, nasal tumor from Greek polupous, poulupous polu- poly- pous foot ped- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin polypus (“a polyp, a polypus in the nose"), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polupous), from πολύς (polus, “many") + πούς (pous, “foot").

    From Wiktionary

Polyp Sentence Examples

  • The coral polyp is also found in Venezuelan waters.

  • In the polyp the nervous tissue is always in the form of a scattered plexus, never concentrated to form a definite nervous system as in the medusa.

  • F, the founder-polyp; I, 2, 3, 4, the succession of polyps budded from the founder-polyp; a', b', c', the succession of polyps budded from 1; a 2, 2 polyps budded from 2; a 3, polyp budded from 3.

  • Or a polyp on the main stem, after having budded a second time to form a pinnule, may give rise to a third bud, which starts a new biserial FIG.

  • The histology described above for the polyp may be taken as the primitive type, from which that From Allman's G y mnoblastic Hydroids, by permission of the Council of the Ray Society.

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