polypus
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of polypus
C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp
Example Sentences
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Ion the tragedian also mentions the polypus, in his Phœnix, saying— I hate the colour-changing polypus, Clinging with bloodless feelers to the rocks.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Chronic inversions are generally due to the weight of a polypus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
The doctors called it "indolent tumor—most probably polypus."
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
I made the discovery that nothing takes longer in the saying than any thing else, for, as ex nihilo nihil fit, so from one polypus nothing any number of similar ones may be produced.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
In no case is the polypus really cured, but greatly diminished in size, and the patient rendered relatively comfortable.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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