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Corallum :: Corallum (n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral..

Cockup :: Cockup (n.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti..

Ossicle :: Ossicle (n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes..

Sclerobase :: Sclerobase (n.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma..

Proostracum :: Proostracum (n.) The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone..

Style :: Stylaster (n.) Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster..

Syconium :: Sycones (n. pl.) A division of calcareous sponges.

Calcarated :: Calcarated (a.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred..

Coralline :: Coralline (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches..

Tubulipore :: Tubulipore (n.) Any one of numerous species of Bryozoa belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, having tubular calcareous calicles..

Septum :: Septum (n.) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

Calcite :: Calcite (n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar..

Palus :: Palus (n.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish..

Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia..

Calcar :: Calcar (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight..

Synaptase :: Synapta (n.) A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix..

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta..

Sclerite :: Sclerite (n.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria..

Lady :: Lady (n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.

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