madriporian coral

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   corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands

   Synonymsstony coralmadrepore

   Broadercoral

   Narrowerbrain coralstaghorn coralmushroom coral

   Part ofMadreporaria

Questions about madriporian coral

What does madriporian coral mean?

madriporian coral means "corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands".

What is another word for madriporian coral?

Close synonyms include stony coral, madrepore. 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 madriporian coral a common word?

madriporian 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.