Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The polyps as a class or other high group of low invertebrate animals, of which the nearest modem synonym is Cœlentera or Cœlenterata.
- [lowercase] Plural of
polypus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The Anthozoa.
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- noun Plural form of
polypus .
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Examples
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These light herbs, which we call polypi of soft water, have several roots, from which circumstance we have given them the name of polypi.
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Although the polypi are the cause of the island being formed, they do not actually form it.
A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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a kind of lining in the air-cells, and is sometimes spit up in the form of branching vessels, which are called polypi of the lungs.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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In his books he describes such operations as the removal of foreign bodies from the nose, ear, and esophagus; and he recognizes foreign growths such as polypi in the air-passages, and gives the method of their removal.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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[Greek: aneu tou andròs], as many of the 'polypi' and 'planariæ' do.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Tennyson gave the Kraken life in this sonnet, which speaks of its "[u] nnumber'd and enormous polypi" and reassures us that, for the time being, "[t] he Kraken sleepeth."
Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010
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Tennyson gave the Kraken life in this sonnet, which speaks of its "[u] nnumber'd and enormous polypi" and reassures us that, for the time being, "[t] he Kraken sleepeth."
Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010
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They therefore commence by showing us, that these soft water polypi have feeling, in order that we should present them with our right of citizenship.
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This truth, to which all children can be witnesses, is more worthy than the illusion of polypi of soft water.
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An hour and a half was spent washing down; for along with many coloured polypi, from corals, shells and insects, the big cable brings up much mud and rust, and makes a fishy smell by no means pleasant: the bottom seems to teem with life. —
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