polyp

From Latin polypus (“a polyp, a polypus in the nose”), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, from πολύς (polús, “many”) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot”)). Doublet of polypus.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlɪp/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒlɪp
• Hyphenation: pol‧yp

polyp (plural polyps)

1. (medicine) An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane.
2. (zoology) A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.
   1. The sessile life stage of many cnidarians, whose free-swimming stage, if present, is the medusa.

• polypian
• polyposis

• “polyp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “polyp”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “polyp”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• loppy

• IPA^(key): [ˈpolɪp]

polyp m anim

1. (biology) polyp

polyp m inan

1. (medicine) polyp

• “polyp”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “polyp”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989