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The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.

Growing upward, as distinguished from a laterral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals. Dana.

A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidæ; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.

One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.

s of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

ssue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. -- En`do*the"cal, a.

nuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.

A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.

A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.

The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.

A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.

h a fringe or as with a fringe. Precipices fringed with grass. Bryant. Fringing reef. See Coral reefs, under Coral.