mushroom coral

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   flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached)

   Broaderstony coral

Questions about mushroom coral

What does mushroom coral mean?

mushroom coral means "flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached)".

Is mushroom coral a common word?

mushroom 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.