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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Polypite

· Pol·y·pite · IPA
01 n. One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.
  1. 1.
    One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.(Zool.) See: Campanularian
  2. 2.
    A fossil coral.(Paleon.)