polypier

English

Noun

polypier (plural polypiers)

1. A polyparium.
2. The individual attachment of a polyp to a polypidom.

French

Etymology

polype +‎ -ier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.li.pje/

Noun

polypier m (plural polypiers)

1. polypier, polyparium
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […] ‎, Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     Dès les premiers froids, Emma quitta sa chambre pour habiter la salle, longue pièce à plafond bas où il y avait, sur la cheminée, un polypier touffu s'étalant contre la glace.

     When the first cold days set in Emma left her bedroom for the sitting-room, a long apartment with a low ceiling, in which there was on the mantelpiece a large bunch of coral spread out against the looking-glass.

Further reading

• “polypier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.