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# polyp

«polyp» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small sea animal with a tube-shaped body and a mouth…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a polyp, polyps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A polyp is a small sea animal with a tube-shaped body and a mouth ringed with tentacles; coral and sea anemones are made of polyps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/#m1)

2) (medicine) A polyp is a small lump that grows inside the body, for example in the nose or gut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, coral reefs are built by millions of tiny coral polyps that make limestone skeletons. Hydra is a freshwater polyp. In health, doctors check and sometimes remove polyps.

### examples

- A coral reef is made of tiny polyps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/#x1)
- Each coral polyp catches food with its tentacles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/#x2)
- The doctor found a small polyp in his nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/#x3)
- Polyps build their homes from limestone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/#x4)
- A sea anemone is a large polyp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/#x5)
- Coral polyps live with algae inside them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/#x6)

### note

Countable. Pronounced «POL-ip». Coral is an animal, not a plant or a rock.

### In the corpora

- [Corals are tiny animals called polyps that build limestone skeletons; algae living inside them make food from sunlight and share it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «polyp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polyp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.