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polypite
polypite (ˈpɒlɪpaɪt) [f. L. polyp-us polyp + -ite1.] 1. Palæont. A fossil polyp. (Webster 1828.) 2. Zool. An individual or zooid of a compound polyp, esp. of a cœlenterate. (Cf. polyp 1 c, polypide.) Also sometimes applied to a free polyp, as a Hydra.1867 Murchison Siluria App. (ed. 4) 539 Common cœ...
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polypide
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, bu...
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polyzoonite
polyzoonite Zool. rare. (pɒlɪˈzəʊənaɪt) [irreg. f. polyzoon + -ite1: cf. polypite.] An individual zooid of a polyzoon.1871 T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 504 When the Polyzoonite retires into its abode, the setæ and soft termination of the cell are gradually folded inwards, in the manner exhibited...
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polype
polyp, polype (ˈpɒlɪp) Forms: 5 polippe, 6 polipe, 7 polip, 7– polype, polyp. See also poulp. [a. F. polype (polipe, v.r. polpe in Brun. Lat. 13th c.), ad. L. polyp-us: see polypus.] † 1. Zool. Properly, an animal having many feet or foot-like processes: but in use restricted to certain organisms, n...
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sertularia
‖ sertularia Zool. (sɜːtjʊˈlɛərɪə) Pl. -æ, -as. [mod.L., f. L. sertula, dim. of serta garland.] One of a genus of branching hydroids having small sessile hydrothecæ; the genus itself.1767 Phil. Trans. LVII. 434 A great many zoophytes, which were formerly called Corallines, now Sertularias and Cellul...
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taster
▪ I. taster1 (ˈteɪstə(r)) Forms: 4–6 tastour, 5 -ar, taastowre, 6– taster. [a. AF. tastour = OF. tasteur, f. OF. taster: see taste v. Later treated as agent-n. of the Eng. vb.: see -er1.] 1. a. One who tastes, or tries the quality of a thing by tasting; spec. one whose office, business, or employmen...
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whorle
▪ I. whorl, n. (hwɔːl, hwɜːl) Forms: α. 5 wharwyl, 5–9 wharle, 8–9 wharl. β. 5 whorwhil, (whorlwyl), qworle, 5–9 whorle, 6 whorlle, whorelle, Sc. quhorle, 8– whorl. [late ME. wharwyl, whorwhil, app. variants of whirl (early forms disyllabic, e.g. wherwille, qwherel) influenced by wharve n.; but with...
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polarity
polarity (pəʊˈlærɪtɪ) [f. polar a. + -ity: cf. F. polarité (1806 in Hatz.-Darm., 1835 in Dict. Acad.) A form tried earlier was polity2.] 1. Magnetism. The quality or property possessed by certain bodies, as a lodestone or magnetized bar, of turning (when free to move) so as to point with their two e...
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swimming
▪ I. swimming, vbl. n. (ˈswɪmɪŋ) [f. swim v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb swim. 1. The action of moving along in the water by natural means of progression.1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 166 He þat neuere ne dyued ne nouȝt can of swymmynge. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxix. [xxx.] (Bodl. MS.) ...
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hydro-
hydro- (haɪdrəʊ) before a vowel also hydr-, = Gr. ὑδρ(ο-, combining form of ὕδωρ water, employed in many compounds adopted or formed from Greek. Of the numerous compounds in Greek some were adopted in Latin, whence they passed into English either directly or through French: the earliest of these are...
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liver
▪ I. liver, n.1 (ˈlɪvə(r)) Forms: 1 lifer, 3–4 livre, 3–5 livere, lyvre, 4 lyvour, 4–5 lyvere, 4–6 lyver, 5 levir, -yr, lyffere, lyvir, -yr, lywer, 5–6 lever, 6 Sc. liffyr, luffer, 7 livour, 1, 4– liver. [OE. lifer fem. = MDu. lēver, lēvere (Du. lever), OHG. libara, lebara, lebera, lepera (MHG. lebe...
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