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Polyp

noun

A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane. Synonym: polypus.

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.

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... any farther, you may like to know that these settlers were all of the polyp family: fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts,—all were polyps. And this is the way their families increased: after the first comers were fairly settled, and pretty thoroughly turned ...

— The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children • Jane Andrews

... thirty to fifty miles long, and from twenty to thirty broad, but they are in general considerably smaller. Their most frequent form is either round or oval. The rocks composing them are all formed by different species of coral. The animal which constructs them is of the polyp tribe, and so small that it can be seen only under the higher powers of the microscope. It multiplies by means of buds like those of a tree, the individuals all combining to form a composite stony mass, which is called a polypidom. A number of ...

— Wonders of Creation • Anonymous

Words linked to "Polyp" : coelenterate, Coelenterata, cnidarian, growth, Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, phylum Coelenterata