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

Definitions

1. noun. One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
2. noun. One of the Anthozoa.
3. noun. Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.
4. 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"

5. noun. a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane

   Synonyms: polypus

Synonyms

polypus

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in polyp:

loppy

Common word forms

polyps, polyped, polypous

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