Usually means: Abnormal tissue growths, often benign.
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  1. polyps: Merriam-Webster
  2. polyps: Collins English Dictionary
  3. polyps: Vocabulary.com
  4. Polyps, polyps: Wordnik
  5. polyps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. polyps: Wiktionary
  7. polyps: Dictionary.com
  8. polyps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Polyps: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. polyps: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Polyps: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Polyps: Encyclopedia

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  1. polyps: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  6. Polyps: Medical dictionary

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  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (polyp)

noun:  (medicine) An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane.
noun:  (zoology) A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.
noun:  The sessile life stage of many cnidarians, whose free-swimming stage, if present, is the medusa.
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