polypus
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of polypus
C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp
Example Sentences
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Case I. A gentleman of sixty years of age, with nasal polypus only moderately developed, yet of many years' duration, was much troubled by the chronic nasal obstruction which was markedly worse in wet weather.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
And in another place he has— They are the blows of a polypus press'd tight.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Aristophanes says, in his Danaides,— And when I have the cuttle-fish and polypus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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
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
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