a. and sb. [f. L. corall-um CORAL + -OID: in mod.F. coralloïde.]
A. adj. Having the form or appearance of coral; akin to coral.
1604. Phil. Trans., XXV. 1606. Fossil Corolloid Bodies.
1775. Pennant, ibid. XLIX. 513. The greatest magazine of coralloid fossils, that I am acquainted with.
1874. Lyell, Elem. Geol., xiii. 178. From the abundance of these ‘coralloid’ mollusca the … White Crag obtained its popular name of Coralline Crag; but true corals, as now defined, are very rare in this formation.
B. sb. Any organism resembling or akin to coral; = CORALLINE1 2.
1748. Phil. Trans., XLV. 646. Some resembled Pearl-Necklaces, and were a kind of microscopical Coralloids.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. 32. Notes, Other marine animals called coralloids raised walls and even mountains by the congeries of their calcareous habitations.
