Crossword-Solution: ALCYONARIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alcyonaria | n. pl. | One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
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| CORAL ___ | 17 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
Nearer the shore the stony blocks are overspread by masses of that singular skeleton-less coral, known as alcyonaria--partaking of the nature of rubber and of leather--an ugly, repulsive, tyrannous growth, over-running and killing other and more delicate corals, as undesirable pests crowd out useful and becoming vegetation.
The skeletonless coral (ALCYONARIA) has a sulphurous savour of its own, and the echini and bęche-de-mer are also to be separately distinguished by their fumes.
See Gorgonia.] (Zoöl.) Defn: One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony (composed of calcium carbonate), as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis.
Umbellule.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.