'Polyp' definitions:
Definition of 'polyp'
From: WordNet
noun
A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane [syn: polyp, polypus]
noun
One of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth; "in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase"
Definition of 'Polyp'
From: GCIDE
- Polyp \Pol"yp\, n. [L. polypus, Gr. ?, ?, literally, many-footed; poly`s many + ?, ?, foot: cf. F. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf. Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.] (Zool.) (a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. (b) One of the Anthozoa. (c) pl. Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid. [Written also polype.] [1913 Webster]
- Fresh-water polyp, the hydra.
- Polyp stem (Zool.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'polyp'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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