coralline

[kawr-uh-lin, -lahyn, kor-]

adjective

composed of coral or having the structure of coral: coralline limestone.

corallike.

coral-colored; reddish-yellow; light yellowish-red; pinkish-yellow.

noun

any red algae impregnated with lime.

any of various corallike animals or calcareous algae.

Origin of coralline

First recorded in 1535–45, coralline is from the Late Latin word corallīnus coral red. See coral, -ine¹

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Examples from the Web for coralline

Historical Examples of coralline

These atolls are of coralline formation and of irregular shape.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7
Various
But from that time the animal nature of the coralline has never been doubted.
The Ocean World:
Louis Figuier
Oftener, also, darker in the coralline than in the volcanic islands.
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man
Robert Gordon Latham
Coral of extinct genus, from the inferior or coralline crag, Suffolk.
A Manual of Elementary Geology
Charles Lyell.
The material is the coralline rock common in this part of the island.
A Trip to Cuba
Julia Ward Howe

British Dictionary definitions for coralline

coralline

adjective

Also: coralloid of, relating to, or resembling coral

of the colour of coral

noun

any of various red algae impregnated with calcium carbonate, esp any of the genus Corallina

any of various animals that resemble coral, such as certain sponges

Word Origin for coralline

C16: from Late Latin corallīnus coral red, from Latin corāllium coral

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