corallum

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin [Term?]. Doublet of coral.

Noun[edit]

corallum (plural corallums or coralla)

  1. (zoology) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous or horny, simple or compound.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corallum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)