polypus

British  

/ ˈpɒlɪpəs /

noun

1. pathol another word for polyp

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Etymology

Origin of polypus

C16: via Latin from Greek: _polyp

Example Sentences

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

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

Now the different species of polypus are these: the eledone, the polypodine, the bolbotine, the osmylus; as both Aristotle and Speusippus teach us.

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

Then came a platter Of equal size, with dainty sword-fish fraught, And then fat cuttle-fish, and the savoury tribes Of the long hairy polypus.

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