Corallineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French corallin, from Latin corallinus, from corallium (“coral”), via Greek probably of Semitic origin. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Corallina and related terms.

形容詞

coralline (comparative more coralline, superlative most coralline)

1. Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Bottle as Hero”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs.

2. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the material coral.
   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

     The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them.

3. Describing rock formed from the skeletons of such algae.

同意語

• coral
• coralloid
• coralloidal

派生語

名詞

coralline (plural corallines)

1. Any calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
2. An animal that resembles such a coral.

アナグラム

• allocrine, collinear