polypifer Zool.
(pəˈlɪpɪfə(r))
[f. L. polypus polyp + -fer bearing; after mod.L. Polypifera: see next.]
A polyp-stock, polypary, or polypidom; also, the whole compound organism; usually in pl. as an English equivalent of Polypifera.
| 1832 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. (ed. 2) 149 Large masses, supposed to be the work of myriads of polypifers. 1875 Lyell Princ. Geol. II. iii. xlix. 613 The stone-making polypifers grow most luxuriantly on the outer edge of the island. |