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A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red or rèd.

Characterized by polyphony; as, Assyrian polyphonic characters.

Polyphony.

A master of polyphony; a contrapuntist.

Same as Polyphonic.

Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.

A receptacle which bears many ovaries.

Pertaining to or designating arc lamps so constructed that more than one can be used on a single circuit.

haracterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; -- opposed to Ant: monophyletic.

Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.

The Anthozoa.

One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa. [Spellt also polypid.]

A coral, or corallum; also, one of the coral-like structure made by bryozoans and hydroids.

A polypidom.

The Anthozoa.

Bearing polyps, or polypites.

Producing polyps.

One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

See Placophora.

Assuming, or having the power of assuming, many forms; as, a polyplastic element which does not preserve its original shape.