Как по Английски будет polypes

noun

The common stem or skeletal support of a colony of polyps, to which the individual zooids are attached.

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The sicula itself ceases to grow soon after the earliest theca have been developed; it remains perm…

noun

In a bryozoan: the part of a zooid that comprises the introvert, lophophore, and movable contents (digestive system, muscles, etc.).

noun

A solitary or colonial sedentary form of a coelenterate such as a sea anemone, typically having a columnar body with the mouth uppermost surrounded by a ring of tentacles. in some species, polyps are a phase in the life cycle which alternates with a medusoid phase.

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A few, such as hydra, are solitary polyps that lack a medusoid stage.