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Webster 1913 Edition

Halysites

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Halˊy-si′tes

(hălˊĭ-sī′tēz)

,

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἄλυσισ

a chain.]

(Paleon.)

A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See

Chain coral

, under

.