Polyp
Pronunciation : Pol"yp
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. polypus, Gr. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf. Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.] (Zo?l.) (a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. (b) One of the Anthozoa. (c) pl.
Definition : Defn: Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid. [Written also polype.] Fresh-water polyp, the hydra. -- Polyp stem (Zo?l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913