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Definition: CORALLINE |
CORALLINEAdjective1. Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone. Noun1. Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals. 2. A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches. |
Date "CORALLINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Pertaining to, composed of, or having the form of a coral, as coralline limestone. b. Any organism that resembles a coral in forming a massive calcareousskeleton or base, such as certain algae or stromatoporoids. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CORALLINE |
| English words defined with "CORALLINE": Bryozoum ♦ Corallinite ♦ Paeonine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CORALLINE": coralgal ♦ rabbit-eye. (references) |
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 | Demosponges and coralline algae on a permanent photo plot. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Holocentrus sp., squirrel fish, in typical habitat between pipes. Red areas on pipe are coralline algae. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Coralline beach on volcanic island. Credit: Small World. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expressions using "CORALLINE": red coralline ♦ Tooth coralline. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
algae coralline | 25 |
coralline | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CORALLINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | koralor (coral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | червен като корал, вид водорасло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | korálový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοραλλοειδήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | korallmoszat, korallból való. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orallinecay coralina, coralíneo, alga marinha (wrack). (various references) коралловый мох, коралловый (coral). (various references) koralni polip, koralni (coral), koralina. (various references) de coral (coral). (various references) korallröd (coral). (various references) mercan kırmızısı, mercan gibi, koralina, deniz yosunu (seaweed), bitkiye benzeyen hayvan. (various references) кораловий (coral). (various references) do san hô kết th nh đỏ như san hô, bằng san hô. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CORALLINE": corallines. (additional references) | |
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"CORALLINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Borsalino, Cavallini, Ceralene, Coralie, corallite, Currallone, nopaline, Toralien. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: collinear. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: acrolein, carillon, colinear, rocaille. | |
-2 letters: aileron, alienor, calorie, cariole, carline, clarion, coalier, collier, corneal, loricae, ocellar, ralline. | |
-3 letters: aeonic, aliner, alnico, caller, carlin, carnie, caroli, cellar, cineol, clinal, clonal, cloner, coaler, coiler, coiner, collar, collie, cornea, cornel, eclair, enolic, enroll, eolian, inlace, lacier, lancer, larine, lienal, lineal, linear, loaner, locale, loreal, lorica, nailer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: citronella, corallines, interlocal. | |
+2 letters: carillonned, citronellal, citronellas, cordilleran, lamellicorn, nonallergic, nonclerical, oneirically, overcalling, precolonial. | |
+3 letters: carillonneur, ceremonially, citronellals, collinearity, crenellation, entropically, forensically, lamellicorns, necrological, neurological, neurotically, nonclericals, noncollinear, reallocating, reallocation, reconcilable, reflectional. | |
+4 letters: acrylonitrile, anaerobically, carillonneurs, ceruloplasmin, chancellories, correlational, crenellations, cryogenically, dendrological, embryonically, ergonomically, incorporeally, intercolonial, mineralogical, nonallergenic, nonelectrical, numerological, phallocentric, phrenological, porcelainlike, reallocations, recalculation, ultraviolence. | |
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