Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CORALLINE

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Definitions of CORALLINE

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

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Examples of Using CORALLINE in a Sentence

• Malta is an archipelago of coralline limestone, located in Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea, 81 kilometres south of Sicily, Italy, and nearly 300 km north (Libya) and northeast (Tunisia) of Africa.
• There are two distinct regions, the granitic islands, the world's only oceanic islands of granitic rock and the coralline outer islands.
• However, reefs such as the coral reefs of tropical waters are formed by biotic (living) processes, dominated by corals and coralline algae.
• The inner chain extends from Shortland Island, 20 km southeast of Bougainville, and includes Vella Lavella, Ganongga, Kolombangara, the New Georgia Islands (New Georgia, Rendova, Vangunu, and Nggatokae), the low coralline Russell Islands, Guadalcanal, and San Cristobal.
• As many as 10,000 Japanese defenders dug into the natural caves and fissures of the coralline limestone formations, reinforcing these positions with concrete bunkers.
• The soils on this island are uncharacteristically fertile, perhaps owing to the islands's flat topography as well as volcanic tuffs and basalt lavas through coralline limestone.
• Peros Banhos is a medium-sized coralline atoll circled by a regular coral reef, similar to those in the neighboring Maldives.
• Carraroe has an unusual beach, Trá an Dóilín, a biogenic gravel beach made of coralline algae known as "maerl".
• Its diet includes calcareous or coralline algae, molluscs, tunicates, sponges, corals, zoanthids, crabs, polychaetes, starfish, urchins, krill, and silversides.
• Corals and calcifying macroalgae such as coralline red algae and calcifying green algae are extremely sensitive to ocean acidification because they build their hard structures out of calcium carbonate.
• Less commonly, organisms that resemble coral, such as certain bryozoans, hydrozoans, or coralline sponges.
• He acknowledged contributions from the coralline expert Ellis by describing him as a "lynx-eyed discoverer of zoophytes".
• The atoll's coral reef is colored by distinct pink coralline algae and provides habitat to nesting hawksbill and green turtles, large predators including whitetip reef shark, and endangered fish like the humphead wrasse.
• It is also the name of a member—the Coral Rag Member—of the Upper Oxfordian Coralline Oolite Formation of North Yorkshire.
• It is omnivorous, it feeds on filamentous green and red algae, tunicates, and on smaller amounts of corals, bryozoans, polychaetes, echinoderms, mollusks, and brown and coralline red algae.
• The eu-littoral zone is dominated by barnacles and limpets with a coralline belt in the very low littoral along with other Rhodophyta and Alaria in the upper sub-littoral.
• Later, he also charted some coralline archipelagoes of the Indian Ocean, such as the Maldives, Laccadives and Chagos in the 1820s and '30s.
• Maerl (also rhodolith) is a collective name for non-geniculate coralline red algae with a certain growth habit.
• In one rock unit there were barnacles, bryozoans, echinoid calcarenite, while in other rocks bryozoan-mollusk calcarenite and coralline algae were found.
• inermis lives in pairs under the purplish coralline algae which encrust the rocks around the low tide mark, and may be found at depths of.
• Umbraulva species inhabit deep waters in the subtidal zone ranging from 3 m up to 125 m, where they grow upon rocks, shells, coralline algae, rhodoliths, and reefs.
• Typification and reassessment of seventeen species of coralline red algae (Corallinales and Sporolithales, Rhodophyta) described by W.
• Pandanus is common in the littoral habitat, and is a component of strandline and coastal vegetation, including grassy or swampy woodlands, secondary forests, and scrub thickets developed on makatea (raised fossilized coralline limestone terraces).
• The Corallinaceae are one of the two extant Coralline families of red algae; they are differentiated from the morphologically similar Sporolithaceae by their formation of grouped sporangial chambers, clustered into sori.
• All the waters around Paulilles are also protected by Natura 2000, for its Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea and Coralline algaes that offers shelter and nursing home for the rich aquatic life.

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