Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling coral in structure or shape.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective resembling coral in form.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having the shape of coral.

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Examples

  • Water presented itself in the CEPHALOTES, a species of cup-shaped flower, filled with refreshing liquid, which hung from the branches of coralliform-shaped bushes.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • Water presented itself in the cephalotes, a species of cup-shaped flower, filled with refreshing liquid, which hung from the branches of coralliform-shaped bushes.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

  • Some of the flashes branched out in a thousand different directions, making coralliform zigzags, and threw out wonderful jets of arborescent light.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

  • a thousand different directions, making coralliform zigzags, and threw out wonderful jets of arborescent light.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

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