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stag'shorn coral

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stag's-horn coral

[stagz-hawrn] .

Origin:
1880–85

staghorn coral

–noun
any of several stony corals of the genus Acropora, having the skeleton branched like the antlers of a stag.


Origin:
1880–85, Americanism
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