stony coral

Questions about stony coral

What does stony coral mean?

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

What is another word for stony coral?

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

stony 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.