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adj
Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.
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Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.
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noun
Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
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noun
An animal that resembles such a coral.
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History
From French corallin, from Latin corallinus, from corallium (“coral”), via Greek probably of Semitic origin. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Corallina and related terms. By surface analysis, coral + -ine.
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