polyp

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pol=yp

CIDE DICTIONARY

polyp, n. [L. polypus, Gr. , , literally, many-footed; poly`s many + , , foot: cf. F. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf. Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.].

 One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.  [1913 Webster]

Fresh-water polyp, the hydra. -- Polyp stem (Zoöl.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

polyp, n.
1 Zool. an individual coelenterate.
2 Med. a small usu. benign growth protruding from a mucous membrane.

Etymology

F polype (as POLYPUS)

THESAURUS

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