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Definition of Coralloid
1. a. Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
Definition of Coralloid
1. Adjective. Having the shape or form of coral. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coralloid
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coralloid
Literary usage of Coralloid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains ...by James Parkinson by James Parkinson (1808)
"A coralloid fossil, from St. Peter's Mountain, near Maestricht, the nature of
which has not been determined. This, and the other fossils from this mountain, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"1900. coralloid. „ Ripple-marked. see 2803. coralloid, segregation ... coralloid,
sec 2799. „ Honeycomb, to show cleavage across rods. 1901. ..."
3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"... 1105, a cross section through the outer part of one of . the coralloid roots,
showing the compact arrangement of the fungal hyphae which iorm a ..."
4. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1904)
"The hundred or more patterns are easily arranged into two chief classes, conveniently
termed Honeycomb and coralloid, each with at least two varieties. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1872)
"('coralloid'.) \ •.- . , 50 - Thin beds of the above, erev color; ... 50 ,,
Irregular beds of limestone of a slightly ' coralloid' char- ^_ ^ acter; ..."
6. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... ramified filaments, and jointed or coralloid bodies, ... their jointed coralloid
branches rife full of feed into little grove- like figures. ..."
7. A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon: With Instructions for by Joseph Henry Collins (1871)
"... or reniform, dendritic, or coralloid aggregations ; or drusy and ... is the
name given to coralloid varieties, satin spar to a fibrous variety. ..."
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