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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 polypcells 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