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polypus
/ ˈɒɪə /
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of polypus1
C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp
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In the first century AD, Pliny the Elder wrote of a "polypus" that was "enormous beyond all conception" and "exhaled a most dreadful stench."
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Insert the boat into the bottle stern first, using a bent metal coat hanger or a surgeon’s tool called polypus forceps.
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You can see the coral insects and polypuses clinging to the rocks, and far below, fishes of different species meeting and swimming past each other.
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He died of a polypus in the heart in July, 1749.
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The sequel� of otitis media, such as granulations sprouting out from the drumhead, some of which may be of large size and are known as polypi, may require treatment by the aurist.
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