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Definition of Polypites
1. polypite [n] - See also: polypite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polypites
Literary usage of Polypites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"polypites developed at intervals from the free surface of the ... polypites springing
from an adherent base ; tentacles capitate, scattered over the body of ..."
2. Report on the Medusae Collected by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1889)
"Below (more distally from the float) the latter structures we find a number of
polypites, more or less thickened by contraction, which are arranged in ..."
3. Medusae of the World by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1910)
"2) is commonly found upon shells which are tenanted by the hermit-crab (Pagurus)
and also upon the carapace of Limulus. The polypites arise at somewhat ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"... from the polypites, it cannot he overlooked that they pass into them by certain
transitions. Agassiz" describes a well-developed mouth in the so-called ..."
5. British Zoophytes: An Introduction to the Hydroida, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa by Arthur Stuart Pennington (1885)
"polypites pale pink, gradually tapering towards the base. Tentacles 6—12.
Described by Mr. Hodge (from a specimen developed from a free medusa) in Trans. of ..."
6. Textbook of Elementary Biology by Henry Johnstone Campbell (1893)
"As these polypites grow as buds from the stalk, which has itself grown as a bud
... After a time, division of labour occurs in the colony; some polypites ..."
7. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Frederich Anton Heller von Hellwald, Elliott Coues (1884)
"They are known as the polypites or feeding stomachs, tasters, and sexual bells.
... In the cavities of the polypites the half-digested food can be seen ..."
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