coralline in Catalan

coralline in Catalan

What does "coralline" mean?

1. adj Relating to, or looking like, the red seaweeds of the family Corallinaceae.
   "Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs."
2. adj Relating to, or similar to, the hard material called coral.
   "The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them."
3. adj Used to describe rock made from the remains of such algae.

coralline in a sentence

• Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs.
• The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them.

Common Catalan translations