"Polypite" is a word in ENGLISH
Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.
One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral,
hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.
A fossil coral.
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One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by …
Read the complete definitionA division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids …
Read the complete definitionAny coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. …
Read the complete definitionOne of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
Read the complete definitionA coral, or corallum; also, one of the coral-like structure made by bryozoans and hydroids.
Read the complete definitionA small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.
Read the complete definitionA hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it …
Read the complete definitionAny one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.
Read the complete definitionOne of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
Read the complete definitionAny one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, …
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