Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An aggregate of polypites or polypides; a compound polypary, or the dermal system of a colony of individual actinozoans, hydrozoans, or polyzoans; a polyp-stock, or the stem of a colony of zoöphytes, containing the cells of the individual polypites or polypides which fabricate it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A coral, or corallum; also, one of the coral-like structure made by bryozoans and hydroids.
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- noun obsolete
polyparium
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Examples
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea - anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a “polypier,” or “polypidom.”
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When the polypes formed by budding or division remain associated, the polypidom is sometimes made up of nothing but an aggregation of these cups, while at other times the cups are at once separated and held together, by an intermediate substance, which represents the branches of the red coral.
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It multiplies by means of buds like those of a tree, the individuals all combining to form a composite stony mass, which is called a polypidom.
Wonders of Creation Anonymous
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea - anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a "polypier," or "polypidom."
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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When the polypes formed by budding or division remain associated, the polypidom is sometimes made up of nothing but an aggregation of these cups, while at other times the cups are at once separated and held together, by an intermediate substance, which represents the branches of the red coral.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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Thus the coral animalcule rears its polypidom or rocky structure in warm latitudes, and constructs reefs or barriers round islands.
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884
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When the polypes formed by budding or division remain associated, the polypidom is sometimes made up of nothing but an aggregation of these cups, while at other times the cups are at once separated and held together, by an intermediate substance, which represents the branches of the red coral.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea-anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a "polypier," or "polypidom."
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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[LUNULITES DENTICULATA] "Conical; cells inalternate, oblong externally, interior conical, nearly vertical to the two surfaces of the polypidom; margin of the cell in its immature state open and denticulated; when mature, covered; mouth near the distal extremity; semicircular when imperfect, circular when perfect; gemmuliferous chamber at the distal end of the cell, opening round, concave surface furrowed, irregular and minutely granulated."
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But before considering the _polypidom, _ or external dwelling
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854
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