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octocoral

Today it means: An anthozoan of the subclass Alcyonaria, having eight-branched tentacles and eight septa. Full definition →

translingual Octocorallia

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translingual · derived fromOctocorallia
English todayoctocoral

Back-formation from translingual Octocorallia. By surface analysis, octo- + coral.

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