coralline
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.78 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.
adj
Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.
noun
Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them."
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.