"Polype" is a word in ENGLISH

An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are …

One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by …

The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or …

The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.

A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new …

Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.

One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, …