Category:Polyp

Pol"yp, n. Etym: [l. polypus, gr. polype. See poly- and foot, and cf. Polypode, polypody, poulp.] (zoöl.) (a) one of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. (b) one of the anthozoa. (c) pl.

Defn: same as anthozoa. See anthozoa, madreporaria, hydroid. [written Also polype.] Fresh-water polyp, the hydra. -- polyp stem (zoöl.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore Which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.