brain coral

English

Grooved brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis)

Noun

brain coral (plural brain corals)

1. Any of several species of coral with the appearance of a brain, in the families Mussidae and Merulinidae.
   • 1954, Ian Fleming, “Beau Desert”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 204:

     The hundred yards of coral took him a quarter of an hour. When he got through and rested on a round lump of brain-coral under the shelter of a last niggerhead, he was glad that nothing but a hundred yards of grey-white water lay in front of him.

Translations

any of several species of coral in the shape of a brain

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腦珊瑚 / 脑珊瑚 (nǎoshānhú)

• Estonian: ajukorall
• Finnish: aivokoralli
• German: Hirnkoralle f
• Portuguese: coral-cérebro m
• Russian: кора́лл-мозгови́к m (koráll-mozgovík)