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Word Meanings - CORALLOIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne.

Related words: (words related to CORALLOIDAL)

  • 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
  • CORALLINITE
    A fossil coralline.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • 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.
  • RESEMBLANT
    Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
  • 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.
  • RESEMBLE
    sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
  • CORALLACEOUS
    Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.
  • RESEMBLABLE
    Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
  • 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.
  • 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.

 

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