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corallet
corallet rare. (ˈkɒrəlɪt) [dim. f. corallum.] The coral skeleton of an individual polyp.1872 Dana Corals i. 48 The coral of the zoöthome being the corallum, that of each polyp in the compound corallum may be called a corallet.
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corallite
corallite (ˈkɒrəlaɪt) [f. L. corall-um + -ite.] 1. A fossil coral.1815 W. Phillips Outl. Min. & Geol. (1818) 141 Petrifactions of marine animals as corallites, enchrinites, pentacrinites. 1834 Beckford Italy I. 364 Squabbles arise about the genus of a coralite. 2. = corallet.1861 J. R. Greene Man. A...
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tubi-
tubi- (tjuːbɪ) combining form of L. tubus tube, in modern scientific terms, chiefly zoological. tubicolar (tjuːˈbɪkələ(r)), tubicolous (-ˈbɪkələs) adjs. [mod.L. tubicola, f. colĕre to cultivate, inhabit], inhabiting a tube; applied to annelids and rotifers that secrete tubular cases, spiders that sp...
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