coralline
adjective
- related to the taxon Corallinales
Wiktionary
adj
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.
- Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae 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.”
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.
“The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them.”
- Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.
noun
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.
- Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
- An animal that resembles such a coral.