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comparative more coralline, superlative most coralline
Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae. quotations examples
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.
2020, David Farrier, “The Bottle as Hero”, in Footprints, 4th Estate
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral. quotations examples
The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them.
1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae. examples
plural corallines
Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae. examples
An animal that resembles such a coral. examples