Octocoral

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An anthozoan of the subclass Alcyonaria, having eight-branched tentacles and eight septa.

    "Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral."

Synonyms

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octocorallianoctocorallianoctocorallineoctocoralline

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"Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral."

Etymology

Back-formation from translingual Octocorallia. By surface analysis, octo- + coral.

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