Category:Polypite

Pol"y*pite, n.

1. (zoöl.) (a) one of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or Siphonophore; a hydranth. See illust. of campanularian. (b) sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.

2. (paleon.)

Defn: a fossil coral.