Word Meanings - CORALLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.

Related words: (words related to CORALLITE)

• 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
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• CORALLIGENA
  See ANTHOZOA
• CORALLINITE
  A fossil coralline.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• 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,
• CORALLINE
  A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
• CORALLIFEROUS
  Containing or producing coral.
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• CORALED
  Having coral; covered with coral.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• CORALWORT
  A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.
• CORALLOIDAL
  resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne.
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• 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.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.