phaceloid
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle, faggot”) + -oid
Adjective
phaceloid (not comparable)
- Of a coral colony: having individual corallite tubes, joined at the base.
- 2016 January 12, “Fine-Scale Skeletal Banding Can Distinguish Symbiotic from Asymbiotic Species among Modern and Fossil Scleractinian Corals”, in PLOS ONE, DOI: :
- On the other hand, species lacking zooxanthellae preferentially form solitary coralla or poorly integrated colonies (i.e. with little or no connecting tissue) and have larger corallites; e.g., phaceloid growth forms.
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Anagrams
- cephaloid