单词 | corallum |
释义 | corallumn. A coral; the calcareous skeleton of a coral polypidom; also the horny, suberose, or siliceous tubular envelope of any zoophyte, whether colonial or simple. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of coral1579 animal flower1750 sea-coralline1753 coralline1779 flower-animals1840 corallum1846 anthozoon1849 actinozoon1864 anthozoan1865 actinozoan1876 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes ii. §9. 15 The corallum in the live Zoophyte is..in general wholly concealed within the polyps. 1855 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. I. 18 Hydroida..animals either naked, or inclosed in a horny, tubular envelope (corallum). 1855 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. I. 24 Antennularia..Corallum simple or branched, jointed, with slender hair-like branchlets set in whorls. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xv. 251 The skeleton or corallum..is left as a contribution to the solid floor of the sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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