Word Meanings - CORALLACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.
Related words: (words related to CORALLACEOUS)
- CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - CORALLUM
The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral. - CORAL-RAG
See CORALLIAN - CORALLIAN
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag. - CORALLIGENA
See ANTHOZOA - PARTAKER
1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30. - CORALLINITE
A fossil coralline. - CORALLIGEROUS
Producing coral; coraliferous. - CORAL
The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. Note: The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to various genera of Madreporaria, and to the hydroid genus, - CORALLIFEROUS
Containing or producing coral. - CORALED
Having coral; covered with coral. - CORALWORT
A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root. - CORALLOIDAL
resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne. - CORALLACEOUS
Like coral, or partaking of its qualities. - CORAL FISH
Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chætodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. - CORALLITE
A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral. - CORALLIFORM
resembling coral in form. - CORALLOID
Having the form of coral; branching like coral. - CORALLIN
A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic. Red corallin, a red dyestuff which is obtained by treating aurin or rosolic acid with ammonia; -- called also pæonin. -- Yellow - CORALLINE
Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone. - TETRACORALLA
See RUGOSA - HYDROCORALLIA
A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora. - STAG-HORN CORAL; STAG-HORN FERN
See STAG