polyp

«polyp» in Mova's school dictionary: a small sea animal with a tube-shaped body and a mouth… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a polyp, polyps)

meaning for a pupil

1) A polyp is a small sea animal with a tube-shaped body and a mouth ringed with tentacles; coral and sea anemones are made of polyps. tree →

2) (medicine) A polyp is a small lump that grows inside the body, for example in the nose or gut. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, coral reefs are built by millions of tiny coral polyps that make limestone skeletons. Hydra is a freshwater polyp. In health, doctors check and sometimes remove polyps.

examples

• A coral reef is made of tiny polyps. tree →
• Each coral polyp catches food with its tentacles. tree →
• The doctor found a small polyp in his nose. tree →
• Polyps build their homes from limestone. tree →
• A sea anemone is a large polyp. tree →
• Coral polyps live with algae inside them. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced «POL-ip». Coral is an animal, not a plant or a rock.

In the corpora

• Corals are tiny animals called polyps that build limestone skeletons; algae living inside them make food from sunlight and share it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «polyp» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.