coralline

English

Corallina pinnatifolia

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.

Adjective

coralline (comparative more coralline, superlative most coralline)

1. Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Bottle as Hero”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     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.

2. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.
   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

     The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them.

3. Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.

Synonyms

• coral
• coralloid
• coralloidal

Derived terms

• coralline sponge
• corallinite
• corralline bedding
• noncoralline

Translations

of red algae

of the material coral

• Asturian: coralín
• Catalan: coral·lí (ca)
• Galician: coralino
• Spanish: coralino (es)

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• Dutch: (material) ^{(please verify)} koralen (nl), (organism) ^{(please verify)} koraal- (nl)

Noun

coralline (plural corallines)

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

Anagrams

• allocrine, collinear

Italian

Adjective

coralline f pl

1. feminine plural of corallino

Anagrams

• collinare, incollare, incollerà