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Word Meanings - CORALLACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

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  • 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

 

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