polypus

noun

1. A medical phenomenon.

   “The nasal passages should be carefully examined for symptoms of stegnosis, enlargement of the turbinated bones, polypi, etc.”

2. A medical phenomenon.
3. (obsolete)An aquatic creature.

   “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.”

   “From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumbered and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.”

4. (archaic)An aquatic creature.