ALL meanings of polyp
pol·yp
P p - noun polyp growth, benign tumour 1
- noun polyp Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism. 1
- noun polyp Pathology. a projecting growth from a mucous surface, as of the nose, being either a tumor or a hypertrophy of the mucous membrane. 1
- countable noun polyp A polyp is a small unhealthy growth on a surface inside your body, especially inside your nose. 0
- countable noun polyp A polyp is a small animal that lives in the sea. It has a hollow body like a tube and long parts called tentacles around its mouth. 0
- noun polyp one of the two forms of individual that occur in coelenterates. It usually has a hollow cylindrical body with a ring of tentacles around the mouth 0
- noun polyp a small vascularized growth arising from the surface of a mucous membrane, having a rounded base or a stalklike projection 0
- noun polyp any of various cnidarians, colonial or individual, having a mouth fringed with many small, slender tentacles bearing stinging cells at the top of a tubelike body, as the sea anemone or hydra 0
- noun polyp a smooth projecting growth of hypertrophied mucous membrane in the nasal passages, bladder, rectum, etc. 0