polypus
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of polypus
C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp
Example Sentences
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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 Lowell, James Russell
For example, if a polypus be cut transversely into two or three pieces, each portion becomes a regular animal, and a new polypus will also be produced from the skin of the old one.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
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
Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding, says— A polypus, a cuttle-fish, and quickly-moving squid, A foul-smelling bolbitine, and chattering old woman.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Get some small cuttle-fish, or squids, some nestis, Some small fry of the polypus, some tripe, And beestings and black-puddings; get besides A noble head of the Milesian pike.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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