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

Coral Fish :: Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals..

Corallite :: Corallite (n.) A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral..

Polyp :: Polyp (n.) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

Tridacna :: Tridacna (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell..

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

Meandrina :: Meandrina (n.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals..

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..

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

Bird Pepper :: Bird pepper () A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers..

Exotheca :: Exotheca (n.) The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa..

Sea Willow :: Sea willow () A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.

Endotheca :: Endotheca (n.) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another..

Atoll :: Atoll (n.) A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island..

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

Vesicle :: Vesicle (n.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.

Heliopora :: Heliopora (n.) An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.

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

Coral :: Coral (n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.

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

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