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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..

Pustulated :: Pustulated (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral..

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

Lagoon :: Lagoon (n.) A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll..

Cyathophylloid :: Cyathophylloid (n.) A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.

Astraean :: Astraean (n.) A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral.

Theca :: Theca (n.) The wall forming a calicle of a coral.

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

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

Tubiporite :: Tubiporite (n.) Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.

Multicostate :: Multicostate (a.) Having numerous ribs, or costae, as the leaf of a plant, or as certain shells and corals..

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc..

Coralligena :: Coralligena (n. pl.) Same as Anthozoa.

Corallite :: Corallite (n.) One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal.

Aurin :: Aurin (n.) A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin..

Paliform :: Paliform (a.) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals..

Coralwort :: Coralwort (n.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root..

Epitheca :: Epitheca (n.) A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals..

Halysites :: Halysites (n.) A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain..

Coralliferous :: Coralliferous (a.) Containing or producing coral.

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