Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A polyp in sense ; a polypite or polypide; one individual, or a single cell, of a compound polyp.
- noun A polypidom, polypary, or polypstock; a compound or aggregate polyp; a polyzoarium.
- Composed of the stony material of some polypidoms; coral-like: as, polypier beads.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A polypidom.
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- noun A
polypidom - noun The individual
attachment of apolyp to a polypidom
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Examples
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea - anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a "polypier," or "polypidom."
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea-anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a "polypier," or "polypidom."
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea - anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a “polypier,” or “polypidom.”
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