sclerobase

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A dense corneous or calcareous mass into which the axial part of the cœnosarc of a compound actinozoan may be converted, as it is in the red coral of commerce, for example. See cut under Coralligena.

Wiktionary

1. n. zoology The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under gorgoniacea, and cœnenchyma.