Polypite

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

  Polypite \Pol"y*pite\, n.
     1. (Zool.)
        (a) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral,
            hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of
            {Campanularian}.
        (b) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.


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     2. (Paleon.) A fossil coral.
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