Definitions for polyp

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Spelling: [pol-ip]
IPA: /ˈpɒl ɪp/

Polyp is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in polyp (loppy).

Definitions for polyp

noun

  1. Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
  2. Pathology. a projecting growth from a mucous surface, as of the nose, being either a tumor or a hypertrophy of the mucous membrane.

Origin of polyp

1350-1400; Middle English polip, short for polipus nasal tumor (later, also cephalopod, now obsolete) Medieval Latin, Latin pōlypus dialectal Greek poulýpous octopus, nasal tumor (Attic polýp

Examples for polyp

A pedantic and self-important “paper architect,” polyp goes into crisis when his marriage dissolves.

polyp hops a Greyhound bus and lands in a small rural town, where he talks his way into a job as a car mechanic.

On the 25th of November, 1740, he cut a polyp into sections.

Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.

In the substance of this polyp lives a crustacean, the nature of which Mons.

After a while it settles down, becomes fixed and develops into a polyp.

Possibly the polyp stinging organs may have the same structure.

On a polyp a bud is formed by a hollow outgrowth of the body-wall.

Coastal construction gives them more places for their polyp stages to colonize.

"It is nothing for a polyp only to be spitted," says Trembley.

Word Value for polyp
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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