Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing polyps; producing polypites: as, the polypiferous surface of a coral. Also polypiparous, polypigerous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Bearing polyps, or polypites.
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- adjective Bearing
polyps
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{151} This may have been the case without regard to the origination of new species, but more probably it was otherwise; or why, for instance, should the polypiferous zoophyta be found almost exclusively in the limestones?
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