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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A coelenterate, such as a hydra or coral, having a cylindrical body and an oral opening usually surrounded by tentacles.
  2. n. A usually nonmalignant growth or tumor protruding from the mucous lining of an organ such as the nose, bladder, or intestine, often causing obstruction.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In zoology, an animal with many feet or foot-like processes, specifically— An octopus, or eight-rayed cephalopod: an old usage, often in the form polypus, still found in poulp or poulpe.
  2. n. In pathology, same as polypus, 2.

Wiktionary

  1. n. medicine an abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane
  2. n. biology a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
  2. n. One of the Anthozoa.
  3. n. Same as anthozoa. See anthozoa, madreporaria, hydroid.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
  2. n. one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth

Etymologies

  1. From Latin polypus ("a polyp, a polypus in the nose"), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polupous), from πολύς (polus, "many") + πούς (pous, "foot"). (Wiktionary)
  2. 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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