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polyp

noun as in growth

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Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.

Coastal construction gives them more places for their polyp stages to colonize.

A pedantic and self-important “paper architect,” Polyp goes into crisis when his marriage dissolves.

Polyp hops a Greyhound bus and lands in a small rural town, where he talks his way into a job as a car mechanic.

It is in the most beautiful azure depths of the limpid water that this hideous, voracious polyp delights.

Thus a polyp, if hard put to it, may shift what little brain and stomach happen to be in his possession.

Each several coral-individual is equivalent to a single living polyp (actinia).

The corallite is composed of carbonate of lime secreted by the polyp, and, broadly speaking, may be called a skeleton.

The polyp on the upper end continues to live and rises above the excess of solid matter.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to polyp, such as: tumor, anemone, coelenterate, coral, hydra, and hydroid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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