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Polypite

Polypite \Pol"y*pite\, n.

  1. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

    2. Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.

  2. (Paleon.) A fossil coral.

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polypite

n. 1 (context rare English) A fossil polyp 2 (context rare English) An individual polyp of a colonial cnidarian