Polypi

These light herbs, which we call polypi of soft water, have several roots, from which circumstance we have given them the name of polypi. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Although the polypi are the cause of the island being formed, they do not actually form it. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

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. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

In his books he describes such operations as the removal of foreign bodies from the nose, ear, and esophagus; and he recognizes foreign growths such as polypi in the air-passages, and gives the method of their removal. ❋ Unknown (1904)

[Greek: aneu tou andròs], as many of the 'polypi' and 'planariæ' do. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

Tennyson gave the Kraken life in this sonnet, which speaks of its "[u] nnumber'd and enormous polypi" and reassures us that, for the time being, "[t] he Kraken sleepeth." ❋ Stefan Beck (2010)

They therefore commence by showing us, that these soft water polypi have feeling, in order that we should present them with our right of citizenship. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This truth, to which all children can be witnesses, is more worthy than the illusion of polypi of soft water. ❋ Unknown (2007)

An hour and a half was spent washing down; for along with many coloured polypi, from corals, shells and insects, the big cable brings up much mud and rust, and makes a fishy smell by no means pleasant: the bottom seems to teem with life. — ❋ Unknown (2005)

Hour after hour, I stand on the forecastle-head, picking off little specimens of polypi and coral, or lie on the saloon deck reading back numbers of the Times — till something hitches, and then all is hurly-burly once more. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I selected a spot — not too near the chasm, for there the constant deposition of the moisture nourished numbers of polypi of a mushroom shape and fleshy consistence, but somewhat back — and made a little garden. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It consists of a thin, straight, fleshy stem, with alternate rows of polypi on each side, and surrounding an elastic stony axis, varying in length from eight inches to two feet. ❋ Unknown (2003)

We find exquisitely delicate structures, some inhabited by simple hydra-like polypi, others by more organised kinds, and beautiful compound Ascidiæ. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The branches, moreover, as we have just seen, sometimes possess organs capable of movement and independent of the polypi. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Of these polypi, in a large specimen, there must be many thousands; yet we see that they act by one movement: they have also one central axis connected with a system of obscure circulation, and the ova are produced in an organ distinct from the separate individuals. 57 Well may one be allowed to ask, What is an individual? ❋ Unknown (2003)

We may consider the polypi in a zoophyte, or the buds in a tree, as cases where the division of the individual has not been completely effected. ❋ Unknown (2003)

One could almost fancy they were sea-monsters like krakens or cuttlefish, writhing polypi who had crawled up from the sea to see the end of this tragedy, even as he, the villain and victim of it, the terrible man in the tall hat, had once crawled up from the sea. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Thus also shells, zoophytes, star-fish, polypi, spirifores, even fish and lizards brought by the water, left on the yet soft coal their exact likeness, “admirably taken off.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

In these actions we apparently behold as perfect a transmission of will in the zoophyte, though composed of thousands of distinct polypi, as in any single animal. ❋ Unknown (2003)