polypide Zool.
(ˈpɒlɪpaɪd)
[f. polyp + -ide; cf. -id3.]
An individual or zooid of a compound polyzoan. (Cf. polyp 1 c, polypite.)
| 1850 Allman in Brit. Assoc. Rep. (1851) 307 For the term Polype, therefore, originally applied not only to the Anthozoal radiata, to which its use ought to be confined, but also to the retractile portion of the Polyzoa, I have substituted in the following Report that of Polypide. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. viii. 453 Each zooid which buds from the common stock is a polypide. |