Corallum: alternatives and connections

A zoophyte of the order Alcyonaria.

A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral.

A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon…

One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony subs…

The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone an…

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the stu…

An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.

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 Cor…

marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs

Having coral; covered with coral.

One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal.

Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.

A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton

An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.