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Pol"y*pite (?), n.
1. Zool. (a)
One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.
Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.
2. Paleon.
A fossil coral.
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