gorgonian coral

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   corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton

   Synonymsgorgonian

   Broadercoral

   Narrowersea feathersea fanred coral

   Part ofGorgonacea

Questions about gorgonian coral

What does gorgonian coral mean?

gorgonian coral means "corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton".

What is another word for gorgonian coral?

Close synonyms include gorgonian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gorgonian coral a common word?

gorgonian coral is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.