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hydrocoral

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hy·dro·cor·al  (hdr-kôrl, -kr-)
n.
Any of various colonial marine hydrozoans of the order Hydrocorallinae, having a limestone skeleton and thus resembling the true corals.
hydrocoral [ˌhaɪdrəˈkɒrəl], hydrocoralline
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any hydrozoan coelenterate of the order Milleporina (orHydrocorallinae), which includes the millepores
[from hydro- + coral]


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Invertebrate life, including hydrocoral (not a true coral), cowries and nudibrancs, colorful shell-less snail-like creatures, cling to the rocky point that rises more than a hundred feet from the ocean bottom.
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