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GORGONIACEA

One of the principal branches of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a company and generally branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or cnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated. The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony (composed of calcium carbonate), as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis. See Alcyonaria, Anthozoa, Cnenchyma. Origin: NL. See Gorgonia. Source: Websters Vocabulary
scorodite   scorpaenoid   scorpene   scorpio   scorpiodea   scorpioid   scorpion   scorpiones   (1)
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