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Polyp

//ˈpɑlɪp// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane.
  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.
  4. 4
    a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane wordnet
  5. 5
    A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.; The sessile life stage of many cnidarians, whose free-swimming stage, if present, is the medusa.

Etymology

From Latin polypus (“a polyp, a polypus in the nose”), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, from πολύς (polús, “many”) + πούς (poús, “foot”)). Doublet of polypus.

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