coralline
Adjective
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Adjective
coralline
- Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 4,
- The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 4,
- Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.
- Spanish: coralino
coralline (plural corallines)
- Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
- An animal that resembles such a coral.
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