coralloid

[ kawr-uh-loid, kor- ]

adjective

1. having the form or appearance of coral.

coralloid

/ ˈkɒrəlɔɪd /

adjective

1. of or resembling coral

Word History and Origins

Origin of coralloid¹

1595–1605; < Latin corāll ( ium ) coral + -oid

Example Sentences

C. boreàlis, Salisb.—Cold bogs and wet woods, the bulbs resting in moss, with a coralloid root beneath; Maine and Vt. to Mich. and Minn., and northward.

From Project Gutenberg

In some of the genera the plants are columnar and phalloid, in other clathrate or latticed, in others again the disk is stellate, and in one genus it is coralloid, but they are all enclosed, in the early stage, in a volva which is at first hidden or partially hidden beneath the surface of the ground.

From Project Gutenberg

When this shell is young, or when the older specimens have lived in deep water, where their surface has not been broken by the shingle, or corroded, or covered with coralloid incrustations, they are regularly radiately ribbed; the ribs are covered with narrow intermediate grooves, marked with a black spot on the internal edge of the shell, which is permanent through all the variations of the outer surface.

From Project Gutenberg

In Derbyshire there are masses of coralloid and other shells which have become siliceous, and are thus left with large vacuities sometimes within and sometimes on the outside of the remaining form of the shell, like the French millstones, and I suppose might serve the same purpose; the gravel of the Derwent is full of specimens of this kind.

From Project Gutenberg

Coralloid limestone at Linsel, and Coalbrook Dale 90 Rocks thrown from mountains, ice from glaciers, and portions of earth, or morasses, removed by columns of water.

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