1) Coral 2) Gorgonian coral
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1) Sea fan
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Gorgonacea is an order of sessile colonial cnidarian found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the tropics and subtropics. Gorgonians are also known as sea whips or sea fans and are similar to the sea pen, a soft coral. Gorgonians are closely related to coral. Individual tiny polyps form colonies that are normally erect, flattened, b...
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• (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. • (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea. • (a.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.
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members of the order Gorgonacea, which have a horny, organic skeleton, and include the sea whips and sea fans.
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Gor·go'ni·an adjective [ Latin
Gorgoneus .]
1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. « The rest his look Bound with
Gorgonian rigor not to move.»
Milton. 2. (Zoology) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as,
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each of the snake-like sisters that formed the terrible Medusa) a type of flexible horny tree-like coral of the order Gorgonacea with eight-armed polyps.
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n] - corals having a horny of calcareous branching skeleton
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gorgonian coral noun corals having a horny of calcareous branching skeleton
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