Definitions for coralline

coralline cor·al·line

Spelling: [kawr-uh-lin, -lahyn, kor-]
IPA: /ˈkɔr ə lɪn, -ˌlaɪn, ˈkɒr-/

Coralline is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 540 anagrams from letters in coralline (aceillnor).

Definitions for coralline

adjective

  1. composed of coral or having the structure of coral:
  2. corallike.
  3. coral-colored; reddish-yellow; light yellowish-red; pinkish-yellow.

noun

  1. any red algae impregnated with lime.
  2. any of various corallike animals or calcareous algae.

Origin of coralline

First recorded in 1535-45, coralline is from the Late Latin word corallīnus coral red. See coral, -ine1

Examples for coralline

The soils of the islands of Micronesia have been derived from volcanic materials or from depositions of coralline limestone.

But from that time the animal nature of the coralline has never been doubted.

It is an organic product, the growth of a whole people the coralline structure builded by a nation.

Oftener, also, darker in the coralline than in the volcanic islands.

They are entirely marine, and are not uncommon in the coralline zone of the sea-coast.

They are composed of coralline limestone, nowhere exceeding 200 feet above the sea, and are well wooded and tolerably fertile.

The material is the coralline rock common in this part of the island.

Coral of extinct genus, from the inferior or coralline crag, Suffolk.

Where the white "coralline" Crag occurs, the pebble bed lies below it.

These atolls are of coralline formation and of irregular shape.

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