Usage examples (34)

• It appeared to us that the production called polypus resembled an animal much less than a carrot or asparagus.
• "Applied also to the nose it cureth the disease called polypus, which by time and sufferance stoppeth the nostrils."
• Now this power of reproduction increases as you descend the scale; as an instance, take the polypus, which is as near as possible at the bottom of it.
• A creature called a polypus, that it still assumes the exact colour of that thing to which it cleaves.