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machopolyp Zool.|ˌmækəʊˈpɒlɪp|
Also -polype.
[f. Gr. µάχη fight + polyp.]
A zooid modified to serve a defensive function. (See quots.)
1883W. S. Dallas [tr. Von Lendenfeld] in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Oct. 250 Hamann explains the contents of the nematophore as a modified polyp, for which he proposes the designation ‘machopolyp’. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Forms Anim. Life (ed. 2) 758 The structures known as nematophores, sarcothecæ, guard-polypes or macho-polyps [sic] which are confined to the..Plumularidæ. Ibid., In the genus Aglaophenia..the machopolypes are usually disposed in a median and two lateral rows. |