coralloid

American  

[kawr-uh-loid, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˌlɔɪd, ˈkɒr- /

Also coralloidal

adjective

1. having the form or appearance of coral.

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coralloid British  

/ ˈkɒrəlɔɪd /

adjective

1. of or resembling coral

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Etymology

Origin of coralloid

1595–1605; < Latin corāll ( ium ) coral + -oid

Example Sentences

C. boreàlis, Salisb.—Cold bogs and wet woods, the bulbs resting in moss, with a coralloid root beneath; Maine and Vt. to Mich. and Minn., and northward.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

From the abundance of these coralloid mollusca the lowest or White Crag obtained its popular name, but true corals, as now defined, or zoantharia, are very rare in this formation.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Sometimes yellowish crystals of it occur plentifully in short thick prisms, but the common form is that of round coralloid bunches, having a radiated structure within.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various