The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coralline \Cor"al*line\ (? or ?), a. [Cf. L. corallinus coralred.] Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.
Coralline \Cor"al*line\, n. [Cf. F. coralline.]
(Bot.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
(Zo["o]l.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae. 2 Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral. 3 Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae. n. 1 Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae. 2 An animal that resembles such a coral.
Wikipedia
Coralline means "resembling coral" and may refer to:
- Coralline algae, whose fronds are covered with calcareous deposits.
- Coralline rock, formed by the death of layers of coralline algae.
- Sclerosponges, sometimes called "coralline sponges".
- Other organisms that resemble coral, such as certain bryozoans or hydrozoans.
Usage examples of "coralline".
It is a square measuring six paces each way, mud and coralline showing traces of plaster outside.
Dredging the sand-bar and cutting a passage in the soft coralline reef will give excellent shelter and, some say, a depth of seventeen fathoms.
Thence the regular coralline bank, whose beach is the Bab, runs some distance down coast, allowing passage to our ugly old friend, Wady Salma.
Capped with brown crust, falling bluff inland, and sloping towards the main, where the usual stone-heaps act as sea-marks, this bank of yellowish-white coralline, measuring 310 metres by half that width, may be the remains of the bed in which the torrents carved out the port.
The island, whose profile slopes to the south-eastward, is a long yellow-white ridge, a lump of coralline four hundred feet high, bare and waterless in summer: yet it feeds the Bedawi flocks at certain seasons.
Scatters of the usual fragments lay about, and the blocks of white coralline explained the old names--Whitton, Whitworth, Whitby.
The older Coralline Crag is Late Pliocene and would thus be al least 2.
The beds below the Red and Coralline Crags, the detritus beds, contain materials ranging from Pliocene to Eocene in age.
According to Moir, the triangular pieces of fossilized whale bone discovered in the strata below the Coralline Crag might have once been used as spear points.
Starting in 1909, Moir found flint implements in and beneath the Red and Coralline Crags.
At some places beneath the Red Crag is found a similar formation called the Coralline Crag.
Below the Red and Coralline Crags of East Anglia there are detritus beds, sometimes called bone beds.
The thatched roofs of the cottage and outbuildings looked out from among spreading rowans bubbling with coralline berries, from whose boughs small bells of bronze depended.
Rohain, stirring medlure in a cup whose bowl was embraced by the claws of two coralline crabs.
I let the propulsion wedge me firmly into a niche, then wriggled about until my right wrist was in contact with a rough coralline peg.