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Definition of polype

Polype
Polype Pol"ype, n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.) See Polyp.
polype
Polyp Pol"yp, n. [L. polypus, Gr. ?, ?, literally, many-footed; poly`s many + ?, ?, foot: cf. F. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf. Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.] (Zo["o]l.) (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.] Fresh-water polyp, the hydra. Polyp stem (Zo["o]l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.

Meaning of polype from wikipedia

- A polyp in zoology is one of two forms found in the phylum Cnidaria, the other being the medusa. Polyps are roughly cylindrical in shape and elongated...
- suggested. In the end though, Pontoppidan again appears ambivalent, stating "Polype, or Star-fish [belongs to] the whole genus of Kors-Trold ['cross troll']...
- (naturalist). Baker, Henry (1743) An attempt towards a natural history of the polype, in a letter to Martin Folkes... - digital facsimile from the Linda Hall...
- discovery of the true form of the sponge-cell (animal), and an account of the polype-like pore-area of Cliona corallinoides contrasted with Professor E. Häckel's...
- Discovery of the True Form of the Sponge-cell (Animal), and an Account of the Polype-like Pore-area of Cliona corallinoides contrasted with Prof. E. Häckel's...
- doi:10.3931/e-rara-14066 Henry Baker. Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du polype, insecte (1744) John Ranby. Méthode de traiter les plaies d'armes à feu...
- discovery of the true form of the sponge-cell (animal), and an account of the polype-like pore-area of Cliona corallinoides contrasted with Professor E. Häckel's...
- S2CID 41882734. Babeș, Aurel (1927). "Cellules pigmentaires rameuses dans un polype de la muqueuse uterine". Annales d'anatomie pathologique (in French). 4:...
- Britain and Ireland. To which is added the description of a large marine polype taken near the North Pole, by the whale-fishers, in the summer 1753 ." Ellis...