polypus

/ ˈpɒlɪpəs /

noun

1. pathol another word for polyp

Word History and Origins

Origin of polypus¹

C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp

Example Sentences

The same hand that has formed the polypus and the worm, has shewn us that it is able to simplify the structure of animals.

From Project Gutenberg

If your monster, polypus-like, come alive again in the tail-part, you must fell that other head of him.

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On removal of the polypus there may be considerable hmorrhage.

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But the cuttle-fish does not live more than a year, as neither does the polypus.

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We shall see that one variety of spathion—that for detaching nasal polypus—was certainly of this shape.

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