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noun

any of several reef-building corals of the genus Meandrina, having a highly convoluted and furrowed surface.

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Origin of brain coral

First recorded in 1700–10

Words nearby brain coral

brainbox, brain candy, braincase, brain cell, brainchild, brain coral, brain damage, braindead, brain death, brain drain, Braine

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How to use brain coral in a sentence

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His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.
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The anger and rebellion had been comatose in these years of freedom, but the maturer brain was the more uneasy, at times appalled.
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British Dictionary definitions for brain coral

brain coral

noun

a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain

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