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Webster 1913 Edition


Coralline

Cor′al-line

(? or ?)
,
Adj.
[Cf. L.
corallinus
coralred.]
Composed of corallines;
as,
coralline
limestone
.

Cor′al-line

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
coralline
.]
1.
(Bot.)
A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
2.
(Zool.)
Formerly any slender coral-like animal; – sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.

Webster 1828 Edition


Coralline

CORALLINE

,
Adj.
Consisting of coral; like coral; containing coral.

CORALLINE

,
Noun.
A submarine plant-like body, consisting of many slender, jointed branches, resembling some species of moss; or animals growing in the form of plants, having their stems fixed to other bodies. These stems are composed of capillary tubes, which pass through a calcarious crust and open on the surface. In the Linnean system, corallines are classed with the zoophytes. They have been distributed by Ellis into vesiculated, furnished with small bodies like bladders; tubular, composed of simple tubes; celliferous, which, when magnified, appear to be fine thin cells, the habitations of small animals; and articulated, consisting of short pieces of stony or cretaceous brittle matter, covered with pores or cells, joined by a tough, membranous, flexible substance, composed of many small tubes. Butin this arrangement of Ellis, the term coralline is synonymous with the more ancient term lithophyta, including all the polypebearing animals, and nearly coinciding with the zoophyta of Linne, and the polypiers of the French naturalists.

Definition 2024


coralline

coralline

English

Wikispecies

Adjective

coralline (comparative more coralline, superlative most coralline)

  1. Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
  2. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.
    • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 4,
      The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them.
  3. Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.

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Translations

Noun

coralline (plural corallines)

  1. Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
  2. An animal that resembles such a coral.

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Italian

Adjective

coralline f pl

  1. feminine plural of corallino

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