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    Polyp , n. [L. polypus, Gr. , , literally, many-footed; πολύς many + , , foot: cf. F. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf. Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.] (Zool.) (a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. (b) One of the Anthozoa. (c) pl. Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid. [Written also polype.]
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    Fresh-water polyp, the hydra. -- Polyp stem (Zool.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.
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