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from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling the Cyathophyllidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Paleon.) Like, or pertaining to, the family
Cyathophyllidæ . - noun (Paleon.) A fossil coral of the family
Cyathophyllidæ ; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also calledcup corals . Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun paleontology A
fossil coral of thefamily Cyathophyllidae.
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