polypus

/ ˈpɒlɪpəs /

noun

Origin of polypus¹

C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp

The same hand that has formed the polypus and the worm, has shewn us that it is able to simplify the structure of animals.

If your monster, polypus-like, come alive again in the tail-part, you must fell that other head of him.

On removal of the polypus there may be considerable hmorrhage.

But the cuttle-fish does not live more than a year, as neither does the polypus.

We shall see that one variety of spathion—that for detaching nasal polypus—was certainly of this shape.

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