polypifer

Updated: June 18, 2025

As a matter of fact, nothing could be more slothful or slow, more given up to a life of ease and degeneracy, than the "reef-building polypifer" to give him his scientific name. He is the hobo of the animal world, but, unlike the hobo, he does not even tramp for a living.

H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole - The Blue Lagoon: a romance