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brain coral
noun
- any of several reef-building corals of the genus Meandrina, having a highly convoluted and furrowed surface.
brain coral
noun
- a stony coral of the genus Meandrina , in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
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Word History and Origins
Origin of brain coral1
First recorded in 1700–10
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Example Sentences
This species is commonly known as brain-coral or brain-stone.
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The fossil is not unlike the existing brain-coral of the tropical seas (Fig. 118).
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Because of the appearance of the skeleton certain corals have received common names, as the organ-pipe coral, brain coral, etc.
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