SkyfireDict

polyp   (TTS Sound)

The noun polyp has 2 senses

• polyp, polypus -- (a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane)


• polyp -- (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")