meaning of polyp
1. One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
2. One of the Anthozoa.
3. Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.
4. 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
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