Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Polypite \Pol"y*pite\, n.
   1. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral,
          hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of
          {Campanularian}.
      (b) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.

   2. (Paleon.) A fossil coral.