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Actinaria :: Actinaria (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not..

Aporosa :: Aporosa (n. pl.) A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

Cellepore :: Cellepore (n.) A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa..

Polypidom :: Polypidom (n.) A coral, or corallum; also, one of the coral-like structure made by bryozoans and hydroids..

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) 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..

Madreporite :: Madreporite (n.) A fossil coral.

Fungian :: Fungian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals..

Costa :: Costa (n.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

Sea Mat :: Sea mat () Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.

Vesicular :: Vesicular (a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf..

Coralloid :: Coralloid (a.) Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

Coenenchyma :: Coenenchyma (n.) The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

Corallinite :: Corallinite (n.) A fossil coralline.

Columella :: Columella (n.) The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.

Septal :: Septal (a.) Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell..

Corallaceous :: Corallaceous (a.) Like coral, or partaking of its qualities..

Fungite :: Fungite (n.) A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

Virgularian :: Virgularian (n.) Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis..

Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (n.) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara..

Porites :: Porites (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms..

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