Definition of coralline

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Coralline (n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.

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Coralline :: Coralline (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches..
Paeonine :: Paeonine (n.) An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline..
Lithophyte :: Lithophyte (n.) A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals..
Corallinite :: Corallinite (n.) A fossil coralline.
Coralline :: Coralline (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone..
Bryozoum :: Bryozoum (n.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.)..
Coralline :: Coralline (n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.
Nullipore :: Nullipore (n.) A name for certain crustaceous marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion..
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