Word Meanings - FUNGITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

Related words: (words related to FUNGITE)

• 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
• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• CORALLIGENA
  See ANTHOZOA
• FOSSIL
  Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
• FOSSILIST
  One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
• FOSSILIZED
  Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
• 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,
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• FUNGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n.
• CORALLIFEROUS
  Containing or producing coral.
• FUNGIA
  A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.
• 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.
• CORK FOSSIL
  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• 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.