Word Meanings - CORALLACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

Related words: (words related to CORALLACEOUS)

• 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