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Comprising the soft corals
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alcyonacea
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The Alcyonacea , or soft corals , are an order of corals which do not produce calcium carbonate skeletons. Soft corals contain minute, spiny skeletal elements called sclerites , useful in species identification. Sclerites give these corals some degree of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Alcyonacea \Al`cy*o*na"ce*a\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria , of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria . [1913 Webster] ||