| gorgonia | <zoology> 1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. Setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis. 2. Any slender branched gorgonian. Origin: L, a coral which hardens in the air. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gorgoniacea | <zoology> One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or cnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated. 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. See Alcyonaria, Anthozoa, Cnenchyma. Origin: NL. See Gorgonia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gorgonian | 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. "The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move." (Milton) 2. <zoology> Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral. Origin: L. Gorgoneus. <zoology> One of the Gorgoniacea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gorgonia | red corals and sea fans |
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| gorgonia | corals having a horny of calcareous branching skeleton |
| gorgonia | corals having a horny of calcareous branching skeleton |
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