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Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.
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a.
Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
n.
A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture.
n. pl.
An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid.
n.
A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
n.pl.
A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.
a.
Having but one front surface; as, some foliaceous corals are unifacial, the polyp mouths being confined to one surface.
n.
Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.
n.
A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
n.
A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.
n. pl.
An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
n. pl.
An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa.
n.
An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the Paleozoic formations. It is cup-shaped with numerous septa, and with a deep pit in one side of the cup.
n.
One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.
v. i.
Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids.
n.
The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
n.
Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
n. pl.
The stony corals; the Madreporaria.
n.
A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched.
n.
One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
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