Polyp

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Polyp \Pol"yp\, n. [L. polypus, Gr. ?, ?, literally,
     many-footed; poly`s many + ?, ?, foot: cf. F. polype. See
     {Poly-} and {Foot}, and cf. {Polypode}, {Polypody}, {Poulp}.]
     (Zool.)
     (a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or
         coral.


     (b) One of the Anthozoa.
     (c) pl. Same as {Anthozoa}. See {Anthozoa}, {Madreporaria},
         {Hydroid}. [Written also {polype}.]
         [1913 Webster]
  
     {Fresh-water polyp}, the hydra.
  
     {Polyp stem} (Zool.), that portion of the stem of a
        siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  polyp
       n 1: a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
            [syn: {polypus}]
       2: one of two forms that coelenterates take e.g. a hydra or
          coral: usually sedentary and has a hollow cylindrical body
          usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "polyp":
     abdominal hernia, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb,
     blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle,
     chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, colitis, diverticulitis,
     diverticulosis, duodenal ulcer, duodenitis, eschar,
     esophagal ulcer, esophagitis, felon, fester, festering,
     fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gastritis, gathering,
     gumboil, hemorrhoids, hiatal hernia, kibe, lesion, megacolon,
     papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peptic ulcer, peritonitis,
     petechia, piles, pimple, pock, pustule, rising, scab, soft chancre,
     sore, stigma, stomach ulcer, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle,
     ulcer, ulceration, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound