polypus

/ (ˈpɒlɪpəs) /

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noun plural -pi (-paɪ)

pathol another word for polyp (def. 2)

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Word Origin for polypus

C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp

Words nearby polypus

polyproline, polypropylene, polyprotic, polyprotodont, polyptych, polypus, polyrhythm, polyrhythmic, polyribosome, polysaccharide, polysemy

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How to use polypus in a sentence

The same hand that has formed the polypus and the worm, has shewn us that it is able to simplify the structure of animals.
The Book of Curiosities|I. Platts
If your monster, polypus-like, come alive again in the tail-part, you must fell that other head of him.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
On removal of the polypus there may be considerable hmorrhage.
A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4)|Various
But the cuttle-fish does not live more than a year, as neither does the polypus.
The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenus|Athenus

We shall see that one variety of spathion—that for detaching nasal polypus—was certainly of this shape.
Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times|John Stewart Milne