Word Meanings - CORALLUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

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• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• CORALLUM
  The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• SKELETON
  Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal. Skeleton bill, a bill or draft made out in blank as to the amount
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• HORNY-HANDED
  Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
• CORALLIGENA
  See ANTHOZOA
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• HORNY
  1. Having horns or hornlike projections. Gay. 2. Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. "The horny . . . coat of the eye." Ray. 3. Hard; callous. "His horny fist." Dryden.
• SIMPLE-MINDED
  Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.
• CORALLINITE
  A fossil coralline.
• SIMPLETON
  A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
• 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.
• HORNYHEAD
  Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.
• WHETHERING
  The retention of the afterbirth in cows. Gardner.
• CORALLIFEROUS
  Containing or producing coral.
• OOPHYTE; OOEPHYTE
  Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion.
• EMPHYTEUTICARY
  One who holds lands by emphyteusis.
• MICROPHYTE
  A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algæ, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• SPERMOPHYTE
  Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.
• TETRACORALLA
  See RUGOSA
• AEROPHYTE
  A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.
• MICACEO-CALCAREOUS
  Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.
• ZYGOPHYTE
  Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeæ), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oöphyte.
• THALLOPHYTE
  See THALLOGEN
• 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.