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polypus(dictionary)

polypus (iou)



polypus noun. . LME.
[Latin from Greek (Doric, Aeolic) polupos, var. of Attic polupous, formed as POLY- + pous foot.]
Medicine. = POLYP 1. LME.
A cephalopod having eight or ten tentacles, as an octopus or a squid. Now only in allusion to Latin or Greek. L15.
= POLYP 3. Now rare or obsolete. M18.