Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling coral in appearance or form.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling coral in form; branching or otherwise shaped like coral; coralliform. Also corallinoid, coralloidal.
- n. A polyzoan or moss-animalcule, as some of the corallines, likened to a coral polyp.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having the shape or form of coral.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
Etymologies
- Latin corallium, coral; see coral + -oid.
Examples
“Sometimes yellowish crystals of it occur plentifully in short thick prisms, but the common form is that of round coralloid bunches, having a radiated structure within.”
“Derbyshire there are masses of coralloid and other shells which have become siliceous, and are thus left with large vacuities sometimes within and sometimes on the outside of the remaining form of the shell, like the French millstones, and I suppose might serve the same purpose; the gravel of the Derwent is full of specimens of this kind.”
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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