Bible Dictionaries
Polypite

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

(n.) A fossil coral.

(3):

(n.) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Polypite'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/polypite.html. 1828.