| 单词 | organpipe coral |
| 释义 | > as lemmasorgan-pipe coral organ-pipe coral n. ( Tubipora),extracted from coraln.1organ-pipe coral organ-pipe coral n. a tropical coral of the genus Tubipora (order Stolonifera), which forms arrays of narrow calcareous tubes linked by transverse plates; cf. earlier organ coral n. at organ n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > concretion or petrifaction > [noun] > coral > specific coral-stone1607 mushroom stone1668 starry stone1677 mushroom coral1681 stone-mushroom1687 organ-pipe coral1833 Neptune's cup1839 1833 G. A. Mantell Wonders Geol. (1838) II. 478 Tubipora: Organ-pipe coral. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. v. 103 The organ-pipe coral (Tubipora musica) is one of these Alcyonarians, and a beautiful colony it is, a group of red tubes bound together cross-wise at intervals. 1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) iv. 152/1 The tropical Indo-Pacific organ-pipe coral,..which belongs to another group of octocorallians, is differently organized [compared with gorgonians]. < as lemmas |
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