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Of the nature of a polypus; having many feet or roots, like the polypus; affected with polypus.

Overbusy; officious. [R.] Heywood.

The state of being overbusy. [R.]

A division of marsupials in which there are more fore incisor teeth in each jaw.

A suborder of existing ganoid fishes having numerous fins along the back. The bichir, or Polypterus, is the type. See Illust. under Crossopterygian.

An African genus of ganoid fishes including the bichir.

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."

Same as Polyp.

to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].

An old name for severwal species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

es, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian. [Written also calycle. See Calycle.]

A hydroid of the family ampanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ.

a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.

. See under Brain. -- Chain coral. See under Chain. -- Coral animal (Zoöl.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called coral insects. -- Coral fish. See in the Vocabulary. -- Coral reefs (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, c…

The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.