polypus
Word Origin for polypus
C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp
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Historical Examples of polypus
My brain twitched like a polypus that has been thrown into vinegar.
The Confession of a FoolAugust Strindberg
It sounds as if she had a chronic cold or a polypus in her nose—by buther was a Greek.
The DuelA. I. Kuprin
His nostrils, filled with a grove of bristles, puff out a polypus.
Desiderius Erasmus of RotterdamEphraim Emerton
As the polypus resembles in colour the rock to which it clings.
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume VJ. H. Merle d'Aubigné
On removal of the polypus there may be considerable hmorrhage.
polypus
[pŏl′ə-pəs]
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