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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Polyp

/päl'-ĭp/ · Pol·yp · IPA /ˈpɑlɪp/
01 n. One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
  1. 1.
    One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.(Zool.)
Phrases & compounds
Fresh-water polyp — the hydra.
Polyp stem — that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.