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Coralline

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.

    "Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs."

  2. 2
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.

    "The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them."

  3. 3
    Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
  2. 2
    An animal that resembles such a coral.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French corallin, from Latin corallinus, from corallium (“coral”), via Greek probably of Semitic origin. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Corallina and related terms. By surface analysis, coral + -ine.

Etymology 2

From French corallin, from Latin corallinus, from corallium (“coral”), via Greek probably of Semitic origin. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Corallina and related terms. By surface analysis, coral + -ine.

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