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Definition of Polype
1. n. See Polyp.
Definition of Polype
1. polyp [n -S] - See also: polyp
Medical Definition of Polype
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Polype
Literary usage of Polype
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"A I< Horizontal Section of a polype, showing Com! from tbe West Indies, ...
The polype is the lining part of the coral, the gelatinous mass which FIG. 8. ..."
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"In lue green polype the appearance of the arm is ... in the polype, they certainly
have fome knowledge of the approach of their ..."
3. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"The polype-mass is gelatinous within, and covered with a sort of leathery skin
... The external part of the body of the polype is a membrane so transparent, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It is to be recollected, however, that it is only the inferior portion of the
polype which is thus hardened with carbonate of lime. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"The stomach of the polype is a kind of bag or gut into which the mouth opens,
and goes from the head to the tail. This, in a strong light, is visible to the ..."
6. Principles of Comparative Physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1854)
"... in the first instance, arc merely, like the polype-buds, little protuberances (Fig.
23i в, hh) developed from the soft tissue of the interior, ..."
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