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corallum

corallum noun: the skeleton of a coral. It can be calcareous or horny, simple or compound.

Noun

corallum (plural corallums or coralla)

  1. (obsolete) The skeleton of a coral. It can be calcareous or horny, simple or compound.
    • I am fortunate enough to possess fine specimens of some three or four varieties of living, working coral "polyps," for such is the name by which the coral-builder is designated. These specimens are kept in pure sea-water, and I have studied their habits very carefully for years; they seem to be in...1878 April, William Emerson Damon, “Popular Science Monthly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Living Corals

corallum meaning in Tamil

corallum in Tamil

பவளக்கூடு, முருகைக்கூடு

Forms of corallum

pluralcorallums
pluralcoralla

Origin of corallum

From Latin [Term?]. Doublet of coral.

Questions about corallum

What does corallum mean?
Corallum means the skeleton of a coral. It can be calcareous or horny, simple or compound.
What is corallum in Tamil?
Corallum in Tamil is பவளக்கூடு, முருகைக்கூடு. See Corallum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is corallum?
Corallum is a noun.
What is the plural of corallum?
The plural of corallum is corallums.

Words near corallum in the dictionary

  1. corallopyronin
  2. corallopyronins
  3. Corallos
  4. corallovexiid
  5. corallovexiids
  6. corallum
  7. corallums
  8. corally
  9. coralology
  10. coralomorph
  11. coralporosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corallum (page history and authors); corallum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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