[1805–15; ‹ L corāll(ium) coral + -ite1]This word is first recorded in the period 1805–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Indo-European, backlash, napoleon, one-sided, phase-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)
Examples of 'corallite' in a sentence
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Therefore, data on corallite morphology and genetic data are often combined to increase phylogenetic resolution.
Maxim V. Filatov, Pedro R. Frade, Rolf P. M. Bak, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Jaap A. Kaandorp 2013, 'Comparison between Colony Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny in the Caribbean ScleractinianCoral Genus Madracis', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0071287. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Corallite size and density did not differ between species and did not, therefore, influence healing rate.
Paula Lozada-Misa, Alexander Kerr, Laurie Raymundo 2015, 'Contrasting Lesion Dynamics of White Syndrome among the scleractinian corals Poritesspp.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4488276?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)