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pol⋅yp

  [pol-ip]
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–noun
1. Zoology.
a. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, esp. as applied to coelenterates.
b. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
2. Pathology. a projecting growth from a mucous surface, as of the nose, being either a tumor or a hypertrophy of the mucous membrane.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME polip, short for polipus nasal tumor (later, also cephalopod, now obs.) < ML, L pōlypus < dial. Gk poulýpous octopus, nasal tumor (Attic polýpous, gen. polýpodos; see poly-, -pod )

Related forms:
pol⋅yp⋅ous, adjective
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pol·yp   (pŏl'ĭp)   
n.  

  1. A coelenterate, such as a hydra or coral, having a cylindrical body and an oral opening usually surrounded by tentacles.

  2. A usually nonmalignant growth or tumor protruding from the mucous lining of an organ such as the nose, bladder, or intestine, often causing obstruction.


[Middle English polip, nasal tumor, from Old French polipe, from Latin pōlypus, cuttlefish, nasal tumor, from Greek polupous, poulupous : polu-, poly- + pous, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]
pol'yp·oid' adj.
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polyp 
c.1400, "nasal tumor," from L. polypus "cuttlefish," also "nasal tumor," from Gk. (Doric, Aeolic) polypos "octopus, cuttlefish," from polys "many" (see plenary) + pous "foot." Sense extended 1742 to hydras and sea anemones (earlier polypus, c.1520).
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Main Entry: pol·yp
Pronunciation: 'päl-&p
Function: noun
: a projecting mass of swollen and hypertrophied or tumorous membrane (as in thenasal cavity or the intestine) called also polypus
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polyp pol·yp (pŏl'ĭp)
n.
A usually nonmalignant growth of tissue protruding from the mucous lining of an organ such as the nose, bladder, or intestine, often causing obstruction. Also called polypus.

pol'yp·oid' adj.

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