Coralline

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, consisting of, or producing coral.
  • adj. Resembling coral, especially in color.
  • n. Any of various red algae of the family Corallinaceae whose fronds are covered with calcareous deposits.
  • n. Any of various organisms that resemble coral, such as certain bryozoans or hydrozoans.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.
  • adj. Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.
  • n. Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
  • n. An animal that resembles such a coral.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Composed of corallines.
  • n. A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
  • n. Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of or containing coral; resembling coral; coral. Specifically
  • Having a color somewhat resembling that of red coral; red, pinkish-red, or reddish-yellow.
  • n. A seaweed with rigid calcareous fronds: so called from its resemblance to coral. See Corallina.
  • n. A coral or other zoöphyte or actinozoan: a term extended also to polyzoans or moss-animalcules, and to some of the hydrozoans.
  • n. [In this sense commonly corallin.] A dye, prepared commercially by heating together phenol, anhydrous oxalic acid, and oil of vitriol, and producing a very unstable color.
  • n. Commercial rosolic acid.
    • Word Usage
    "A smaller calculus, which has been called coralline, is also cylindroid, with a number of brown, rough, crystalline oxalate of lime branches and whitish depressions of carbonate."
    Cross Reference
    coralline zone    coralline crag    coralline ware    coralline deposits   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    coral    coralloid    coralloidal   
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