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Paeonine :: Paeonine (n.) An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline..

Eschara :: Eschara (n.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched..

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

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..

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..

Coraled :: Coraled (a.) Having coral; covered with coral.

Zaphrentis :: Zaphrentis (n.) An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the Paleozoic formations. It is cup-shaped with numerous septa, and with a deep pit in one side of the cup..

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

Coralline :: Coralline (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone..

Coralligenous :: Coralligenous (a.) producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous.

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

Proliferous :: Proliferous (a.) Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.

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

Oculina :: Oculina (n.) A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture..

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

Coralloidal :: Coralloidal (a.) resembling coral; coralloid.

Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral..

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

Fission :: Fission (n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation..

Glomuliferous :: Glomuliferous (a.) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

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