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Definition of Gorgoniacea

1. Noun. Red corals and sea fans.

Definition of Gorgoniacea

1. n. pl. One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or cœnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated.

Medical Definition of Gorgoniacea

1. One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or cnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated. The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony (composed of calcium carbonate), as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis. See Alcyonaria, Anthozoa, Cnenchyma. Origin: NL. See Gorgonia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Gorgoniacea

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1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Sea- fans are sparingly represented in a fossil state; only a few forms are known from Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks. See gorgoniacea. ..."

2. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"These beautiful structures, belonging to the order gorgoniacea, abound on the southern coasts of the Peninsula, but at Singapore have almost entirely ..."

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