BRAIN CORAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brain coral mean? 

• BRAIN CORAL (noun)
  The noun BRAIN CORAL has 1 sense:

1. massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface

  Familiarity information: BRAIN CORAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIN CORAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("brain coral" is a kind of...):

madrepore; madriporian coral; stony coral (corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands)

Holonyms ("brain coral" is a member of...):

genus Maeandra; Maeandra (brain corals)