octocoral

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An anthozoan of the subclass Alcyonaria, having eight-branched tentacles and eight septa.
    — Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral.

词形变化

octocorals plural

词源

Back-formation from translingual Octocorallia. By surface analysis, octo- + coral.
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