stony coral
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noun
a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
Origin:
1610–20
1610–20
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| stony coral | |
| —n | |
| any coral of the order Madreporaria, having a calcareous skeleton, aggregations of which form reefs and islands | |
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Example sentences
Twenty-eight species of stony coral are reported, and branching corals are common.
It seemed to him that there appears to be misapprehension that a stony coral genome would be the first cnidarian to be sequenced.
Marine scientists observed significant declines in stony coral cover and increases in diseases, and users perceived the decline.
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