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Definition of Mushroom coral
1. Noun. Flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mushroom Coral
Literary usage of Mushroom coral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"... STOCK OF THE mushroom coral. ab Successive joints of the stem which have each
thrown off a free discoid coral; d young mushroom coral still attached to ..."
2. Comparative Zoology, Structural and Systematic: For Use in Schools and Colleges by James Orton, Charles Wright Dodge (1895)
"The prevailing color of the Coral Polyps is green; and the usual size varies from
that of a pin's head to half an inch, but the Mushroom-coral (which is a ..."
3. Leaves from Nature's Story-book by Meriba Ada Babcock Kelly (1892)
"mushroom coral. " Now inspect carefully this mushroom coral. Does it not look
like our cream-colored mushrooms that we find so abundant in the woods ..."
4. General Zoölogy: Practical, Systematic and Comparative; Being a Revision and by James Orton, Charles Wright Dodge (1903)
"Fungia, or " mushroom coral," is disk-shaped, and differs from other kinds ...
or '* mushroom coral": one fourth natural size. Pacific. being the secretion ..."
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