phaceloid

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, bundle, faggot) +‎ -oid.

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phaceloid (not comparable)

  1. Of a coral colony: having individual corallite tubes, joined at the base.
    • 2016 January 12, “Fine-Scale Skeletal Banding Can Distinguish Symbiotic from Asymbiotic Species among Modern and Fossil Scleractinian Corals”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      On the other hand, species lacking zooxanthellae preferentially form solitary coralla or poorly integrated colonies (i.e. with little or no connecting tissue) and have larger corallites; e.g., phaceloid growth forms.

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