polypus

British  

/ ˈpɒlɪpəs /

noun

1. pathol another word for polyp

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Etymology

Origin of polypus

C16: via Latin from Greek: _polyp

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Example Sentences

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polypus

But Antiphanes calls a dish βατάνιον, in his Euthydicus— Then came a polypus all cut in pieces, And boiled ἐν βατανίοισιν.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

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

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

But concerning the boiling of the small polypus, Alexis, in his Wicked Woman, introduces a cook speaking as follows— Now these three cuttle-fish I have just bought For one small drachma.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

These two must have been octopods if they were anything; the word "polypus" thus especially designates it, and moreover, the free-swimming cuttles and squids would be helpless if stranded on the shore.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by H. W. (Henry William) Lee

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