polyp 的定义
- Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates.an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- Pathology. a projecting growth from a mucous surface, as of the nose, being either a tumor or a hypertrophy of the mucous membrane.
polyp 近义词
growth
更多polyp例句
- Under heat stress, corals’ algae spew toxic chemicals, prompting polyps to kick them out.
- Center stage are the photosynthetic algae that harness the power of the sun, providing energy to their animal host, the coral polyp.
- No one really understood why bleaching occurred, only that if a coral polyp remained without its algae for too long, it could starve and die.
- Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.
- Coastal construction gives them more places for their polyp stages to colonize.
- A pedantic and self-important “paper architect,” Polyp goes into crisis when his marriage dissolves.
- Polyp hops a Greyhound bus and lands in a small rural town, where he talks his way into a job as a car mechanic.
- It is in the most beautiful azure depths of the limpid water that this hideous, voracious polyp delights.
- Thus a polyp, if hard put to it, may shift what little brain and stomach happen to be in his possession.
- Each several coral-individual is equivalent to a single living polyp (actinia).
- The corallite is composed of carbonate of lime secreted by the polyp, and, broadly speaking, may be called a skeleton.
- The polyp on the upper end continues to live and rises above the excess of solid matter.