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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An order or suborder of Alcyonaria in which the skeleton consists of loose spicules embedded in a well-developed canaliferous cœnenchyma without axial skeletal rod. The group contains the families Xeniidæ, Alcyonidæ, and Nephthyidæ. Nearly equivalent to Alcyoniaceæ.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See
Illust. under alcyonaria.
WordNet 3.0
- n. comprising the soft corals
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