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Definition of Nutritive polyp

Nutritive polyp
Nutritive Nu"tri*tive, a. [Cf. F. nutritif.] Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. Nutritive polyp (Zo["o]l.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. -- Nu"tri*tive*ly, adv. -- Nu"tri*tive*ness, n.

Meaning of Nutritive polyp from wikipedia

- dinoflagellate unicellular algae of the genus Symbiodinium living inside nutritive cells. The symbionts provide food mainly in the form of lipids and sugars...
- impossibility of balancing input and output of the nutritive elements which control the coral polyp metabolism. Recent oceanographic research has brought...
- dohrnii, Laodicea undulata, and Aurelia sp.1, are able to revert to the polyp stage even after reproducing (so-called reversible life cycle), rather than...
- well-developed operculum at the tip of the polyp. Primnoa are monomorphic, thus only having one type of polyp. Their internal anatomy is consistent with...
- undifferentiated sarcoma. Pica is an appetite for, or the behavior of eating, non-nutritive substances (e.g., sand, coal, soil, chalk, paper). Pica can be dangerous...