Word Meanings - CORALLIFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

resembling coral in form.

Related words: (words related to CORALLIFORM)

• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• CORALLUM
  The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• CORALLIGENA
  See ANTHOZOA
• CORALLINITE
  A fossil coralline.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• CORALLIGEROUS
  Producing coral; coraliferous.
• CORAL
  The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. Note: The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to various genera of Madreporaria, and to the hydroid genus,
• CORALLINE
  A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• CORALLIFEROUS
  Containing or producing coral.
• CORALED
  Having coral; covered with coral.
• CORALWORT
  A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.
• CORALLOIDAL
  resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• CORALLACEOUS
  Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• CORAL FISH
  Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chætodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.
• CORALLITE
  A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.
• TETRACORALLA
  See RUGOSA
• HYDROCORALLIA
  A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.