Crossword-Solution: POLYP 5 letters, 69 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Polyp n. One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or
coral.
Polyp n. One of the Anthozoa.
Polyp n. Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.

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Medusa relative 1 answer
Simple sea creature. 1 answer
Sea creature with tentacles 1 answer
Sea anemone, say 1 answer
Sea anemone, for one 1 answer
Sea anemone, for example 1 answer
Sea anemone, e.g. 1 answer
Sea anemone or hydra 1 answer
Minute reef building creature 1 answer
Small growth 1 answer
Marine organism. 1 answer
Individual coral organism 1 answer
Hydra, for one 1 answer
Hydra or sea anemone 1 answer
Hydra or coral 1 answer
Flowerlike water animal. 1 answer
Coral unit 1 answer
Coral reef producer 1 answer
Tentacled resident of a coral reef 1 answer
vascular growth 1 answer
tissue growth that may appear in the nose or colon 1 answer
small simple sea creature with a hollow cylindrical body 1 answer
producer Coral 1 answer
Unwanted nasal growth 1 answer
Tumor on mucous membrane 1 answer
Tiny sea creature 1 answer
Tiny organism in a coral reef 1 answer
Coral reef creature 1 answer
Tentacled animal 1 answer
Target of minor surgery 1 answer
Surgery target 1 answer
Surgeon's problem 1 answer
Small water animal. 1 answer
Small unwanted growth in the body 1 answer
Small sea creature 1 answer
Coral producer 1 answer
Benchley sex-life subject 1 answer
Benchley wrote of its sex life 1 answer
Colonoscopy detection 1 answer
Colonoscopy discovery (great) 1 answer
Colonoscopy find 1 answer
Growth found in the colon or sea anemone 1 answer
Coral animal. 1 answer
Coral colony component 1 answer
Coral colony member 1 answer
Coral component 1 answer
Coral creator 1 answer
Coral creature 1 answer
Coral element 1 answer
Coral maker 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with POLYP (5)

Tradition, and a resemblance of names, (Alpes Penninoe,) had assigned the first of these for the march of Hannibal, (see Simler de Alpibus.) The Chevalier de Folard (Polyp.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
This body he removed with a polyp-forceps, and found it to be a cylindric candle-box, which measured six inches in circumference, 2 1/2 in length, and 1 1/2 in diameter.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
The coral polyp seems to be doing only desultory work, and that mostly on the northeast or Atlantic side of the islands; everywhere else it has abandoned the field to the erosive action of the waves.
The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals Edward Everett Hale 2006
Berlin Akad." 1878, pages 111-124.) seem to have been more definitely evolutionist than those of his predecessors, in this sense, at least, that he recognised not only an ascending scale, but a genetic series from polyp to man and an age-long movement towards perfection.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999
But a polyp only gives rise to a medusa because it has itself arisen from one, and there can be no question of a medusa ever having arisen suddenly and de novo from a polyp-bud, if only because both forms are adapted in their structure as a whole, and in every detail to the conditions of their life.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999

Quotes with POLYP (1)

I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
Zakk Wylde
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 103 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).