Definition of "polypi" []

• Plural form of polypus. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "These light herbs, which we call polypi of soft water, have several roots, from which circumstance we have given them the name of polypi."
• "Although the polypi are the cause of the island being formed, they do not actually form it."
• "a kind of lining in the air-cells, and is sometimes spit up in the form of branching vessels, which are called polypi of the lungs."