adj
coralline
Coralline (adj) means relating to, or looking like, the red seaweeds of the family Corallinaceae.
adj
1
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."
— David Farrier, The Bottle as Hero (2020)
2
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."
— George Orwell pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair (1934)
3
Used to describe rock made from the remains of such algae.
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Etymology
From French corallin, from Latin corallinus, from corallium (“coral”), via Greek probably of Semitic origin. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Corallina and related terms. By surface analysis, coral + -ine.
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What is the meaning of coralline?
"coralline" (adj) means relating to, or looking like, the red seaweeds of the family Corallinaceae.
What are the different meanings of coralline?
"coralline" has 3 main meanings: 1. Relating to, or looking like, the red seaweeds of the family Corallinaceae; 2. Relating to, or similar to, the hard material called coral; 3. Used to describe rock made from the remains of such algae.
