polypteroid (polipteroid)

and n. I. a. Resembling or related to the fin-fishes; belonging to the Polypteroidei. II. n. A member of the Polypteroidei . Polypteroidei (po-lip-te-roiʼdē-i), n . pl . [NL. Polypterus , q. v., + Gr. εἶδος , form.] A suborder of ganoid fishes, represented by the Polyp teridæ and some related families. Polypterus (po-lip'te-rus), n. [NL. (Geoffroy, 1802), ber of the dorsal spines bearing rays behind. It contains the bichir. polyp to ton (pol-ip-tō'ton), n. [L. (> F. polyp tote ), πτῶσις, a case).] In rhet., a figure consisting in the use of different cases or inflections of the same word, or of words of the same immediate derivation, in the same context. One of the most celebrated examples is the distich, Mors mort is mort i mortem nisi morte tuli et, Æternæ vitæ janua clausa foret. (Unle the death of Death had brought death to death by [his] death, the door of eternal life would have been closed.) polyptych (pol'ip-tik), n. [= F. polyptique, IMG:content-0610.png:[blocks in formation] Poly pty cho don (pol-ip-tik'ō-don), п. [NL. (Owen), saurus. polypus (pol'i-pus), n.; pl. polypi (-pi). [NL., polys tig mous as an insect or a crustacean, is poly somitic. Hux ley, Anat. Invert., p. 220. polys past (pol'i-spast), n. [= Sp. polispástos = It. polis pas to, poly sperm (pol'i-spėrm), n. [ All of them easily raised of the kernels and roots, which may be got out of their poly sperms . Evelyn, Sylva, II. iii. § 1. ( Latham . ) polys per mal (pol-i-spèrmal), a. [ brane, of rounded form, and more or le dis poly spermous (p (pol-i-spėr'mus), a. [= Sp. ро tinctly pedunculated. The term is most frequently applied to benign growths. Polypus forceps, a forceps for grasping and tearing off polypi.