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polyp
polyp is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
- 2noun
One of the Anthozoa.
- 3noun
Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.
- 4noun
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"
- 5noun
a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
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