Definition of polyps Polyps
/pɑˈlɪps/ - [palips] -
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What does polyps mean?
Wiktionary 
- polyps (Noun)
Plural of polyp.
Part of speech
🔤- polyps, noun, plural of polyp.
WordNet
NounPlural: polyps |
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| polyp - a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane | ||
| polypus | ||
| growth vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" | ||
| adenomatous polyp a polyp that consists of benign neoplastic tissue derived from glandular epithelium; "adenomatous polyps are visible protrusions that can develop on the mucosal surface of the colon or rectum" | ||
| sessile polyp a relatively flat polyp | ||
| polyp - 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; "in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase" | ||
| cnidarian, coelenterate radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | ||
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Wiktionary
- polyp (Noun)
An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane . - polyp (Noun)
A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- polyp (n.)
One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. - polyp (n.)
One of the Anthozoa. - polyp (n.)
Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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polyp
Polype, pol′ip, n. a name usually applied to an animal like the fresh-water hydra, having a tubular body, and a wreath of many tentacles round the mouth: something with many feet or roots: a pedunculated tumour attached to the surface of a mucous membrane—in the nose, &c.—also Pol′ypus:—pl. Polypes (pol′ips), Polypi (pol′i-pī).—ns. Pol′ypary, the horny or chitonous outer covering of a colony of polyps; Pol′ypide, an individual zoöid of a polyzoarium or compound polyzoan; Polyp′idom, an aggregate of polypites or polypides; Pol′ypier, one individual of a compound polyp: a polypidom, polypary, or polyp-stock.—adj. Pol′ypous. [Gr. polypous—polys, many, pous, foot.]
Wikipedia 
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Polyps are one of two forms of some animal species. Usually polyps are asexual. The other such form is the medusa. When medusae mate, the result will be polyps, when polyps replicate (they don't have sex), the result will be medusas. Certain animal species are polyps all the time.
Both forms live in water.
Part of speech
🔤- polyp, noun, singular of polyps.
