coralline英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
An animal that resembles such a coral.

形容词 adj.

Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.

— Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.

— The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them.
Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.

词形变化

more coralline comparative most coralline superlative corallines plural

词汇关系

近义词

coral coralloid coralloidal

衍生词

coralline rock coralline sponge corallinite corralline bedding noncoralline

词源

词源 1

From French corallin, from Latin corallinus, from corallium (“coral”), via Greek probably of Semitic origin. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Corallina and related terms. By surface analysis, coral + -ine.

词源 2

From French corallin, from Latin corallinus, from corallium (“coral”), via Greek probably of Semitic origin. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Corallina and related terms. By surface analysis, coral + -ine.