polypus

/ ˈpɒlɪpəs /

noun

1. pathol another word for polyp

Word History and Origins

Origin of polypus¹

C16: via Latin from Greek: _polyp

Example Sentences

In the first century AD, Pliny the Elder wrote of a "polypus" that was "enormous beyond all conception" and "exhaled a most dreadful stench."

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Insert the boat into the bottle stern first, using a bent metal coat hanger or a surgeon’s tool called polypus forceps.

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You can see the coral insects and polypuses clinging to the rocks, and far below, fishes of different species meeting and swimming past each other.

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He died of a polypus in the heart in July, 1749.

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The sequel� of otitis media, such as granulations sprouting out from the drumhead, some of which may be of large size and are known as polypi, may require treatment by the aurist.

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