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Polypus :: Polypus (n.) A tumor, usually with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a pear, -- found in the nose, uterus, etc., and produced by hypertrophy of some portion of the mucous membrane..

Polypharmacy :: Polypharmacy (n.) A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients.

Nasopharyngeal :: Nasopharyngeal (a.) Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus..

Polypus :: Polypus (n.) Same as Polyp.

Polyphony :: Polyphony (n.) Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo..

Polypragmatical :: Polypragmatical (a.) Overbusy; officious.

Amadou :: Amadou (n.) 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..

Coenosarc :: Coenosarc (n.) The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.

Gorgoniacea :: Gorgoniacea (n. pl.) One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c/nenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated..

Polyphemus :: Polyphemus (n.) A very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging to the Silkworm family (Bombycidae). Its larva, which is very large, bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm..

Homophony :: Homophony (n.) Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. See Homophonous..

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) A fossil coral.

Madrigal :: Madrigal (n.) An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee..

Monophonic :: Monophonic (a.) Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to polyphonic..

Polyphagy :: Polyphagy (n.) The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

Polyprotodonta :: Polyprotodonta (n. pl.) A division of marsupials in which there are more fore incisor teeth in each jaw.

Polyphony :: Polyphony (n.) Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint..

Polyp :: Polyp (n.) Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid..

Polypomedusae :: Polypomedusae (n. pl.) Same as Hydrozoa.

Fission :: Fission (n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation..

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