coralline

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coralline

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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.

adjective more coralline · most coralline

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.

Similar: coral, coralloid, coralloidal

noun corallines

Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
An animal that resembles such a coral.

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Similar: coral, coralloid, coralloidal

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adj of the material coral

Español	coralino

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@misc{coralline_2026,
  title = {coralline},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coralline},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}