Noun: polypus
| Singular | polypus |
| Plural | polypi; polypuses |
Sample Sentences
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The nasal passages should be carefully examined for symptoms of stegnosis, enlargement of the turbinated bones, polypi, etc. [1898, Werner's magazine, volume 20:]
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He had been becalmed in the tropical seas, and had watched, in eager expectation, though unhappily always in vain, to see the colossal polypus rise from the water, and entwine its enormous arms round the masts and the rigging. [1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VII:]
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From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
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Unnumbered and enormous polypi
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Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green. [1830, Alfred Tennyson, “The Kraken”, in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical:]
Nouns inflected like polypus
renal calculus,
pylorus,
prolapsus,
parahippocampal gyrus,
hyperradius,
succubus,
scarabaeus,
colossus,
eucalyptus,
papyrus,
disfocus,
polypus,
phallus,
solidus,
silurus,
lenticular nucleus,
dinosaurus,
chorepiscopus,
ankylosaurus,
fusiform gyrus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Doublet of polyp. See: Latin Nouns '
polypus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πολύπους'.