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||Pol`y*pif"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) The Anthozoa.

Pol*y*pif"er*ous (?), a. [Polypus + -ferous.] (Zoˆl.) Bearing polyps, or polypites.

Pol`y*pip"a*rous (?), a. [Polypus + L. parere to produce.] (Zoˆl.) Producing polyps.

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

2. (Paleon.) A fossil coral.

||Pol`y*pla*coph"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL. See Poly-, and Placophora.] ||(Zoˆl.) See Placophora.

Pol`y*plas"tic (?), a. [Poly- + -plastic.] (Biol.) Assuming, or having the power of assuming, many forms; as, a polyplastic element which does not preserve its original shape.

Pol`y*pode (?), n. [Cf. F. polypode. See Polypody.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Polypodium; polypody. [Written also polypod.]

Pol"y*pode, n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, the wood louse, milleped: cf. F. polypode. See Polyp.] (Zoˆl.) An animal having many feet; a myriapod.

Pol"y*po`di*um (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, dim. of &?;. See Polyp, and cf. 2d Polypode.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.

Pol"y*po`dy (?), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Polypodium.

Pol"y*poid (?), a. [Polyp + - oid.] 1. (Zoˆl.) Like a polyp; having the nature of a polyp, but lacking the tentacles or other parts.

2. (Med.) Resembling a polypus in appearance; having a character like that of a polypus.

||Pol`y*po*me*du"sÊ (?), n. pl. [NL. See Polyp, and Medusa.] (Zoˆl.) ||Same as Hydrozoa.

Po*lyp"o*rous (?; 277), a. [Poly- + porous.] Having many pores. Wright.

||Po*lyp"o*rus (?), n.; pl. Polypori (#). [NL., fr. Gr. poly`s many + ||&?; a pore.] (Bot.) A genus of fungi having the under surface full of ||minute pores; also, any fungus of this genus.

Polyporus fomentarius was formerly dried and cut in slices for tinder, called amadou. P. betulinus is common in America, and forms very large thick white semicircular excrescences on birch trees. Several species of Polyporous are considered edible.

Pol"y*pous (?), a. [Cf. F. polypeux. See Polyp.] Of the nature of a polypus; having many feet or roots, like the polypus; affected with polypus.

{ Pol`y*prag*mat"ic (?), Pol`y*prag*mat"ic*al (?), } a. [Poly- + pragmatic, - ical.] Overbusy; officious. [R.] Heywood.

Pol`y*prag"ma*ty (?), n. [Poly- + Gr. &?; business.] The state of being overbusy. [R.]

||Pol`y*pro`to*don"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. poly`s many + &?; first ||+ &?;, &?;, tooth.] (Zoˆl.) A division of marsupials in which there ||are more fore incisor teeth in each jaw.

||Po*lyp`te*roi"de*i (?), n. pl. [NL. See Polypterus, and -oid.] ||(Zoˆl.) A suborder of existing ganoid fishes having numerous fins ||along the back. The bichir, or Polypterus, is the type. See Illust. ||under Crossopterygian.

Po*lyp`te*rus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. poly`s many + &?; feather, wing.] (Zoˆl.) An African genus of ganoid fishes including the bichir.

||Pol`yp*to"ton (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; having, or being in, many ||cases; poly`s many + &?; case.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a word is ||repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in ||Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

Pol"y*pus (?), n.; pl. E. Polypuses (#), L. Polypi (#). [L. See Polyp.] 1. (Zoˆl.) Same as Polyp.

2. (Med.) A tumor, usually with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a pear, -- found in the nose, uterus, etc., and produced by hypertrophy of some portion of the mucous membrane.

Pol`y*rhi"zous (?), a. [Gr. &?;; poly`s many + &?; root.] (Bot.) Having numerous roots, or rootlets.

Pol`y*sche"ma*tist (?), a. [Poly- + Gr. &?; form, manner.] Having, or existing in, many different forms or fashions; multiform.