Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hard structure upon the inner surface of the wall, or proper investment of the visceral chamber, of a coral: distinguished from the exotheca, and also from the epitheca.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
tissue which partially fills theinterior of theinterseptal chambers of most madreporariancorals . It usually consists of a series ofoblique tranversesepta , one above another.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἔνδον (endon, "within") + θήκη (thēkē, "case, box") .
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