phaceloid

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle, faggot”) +‎ -oid.

Adjective

phaceloid (not comparable)

1. Of a coral colony: having individual corallite tubes, joined at the base.
   • 2016 January 12, “Fine-Scale Skeletal Banding Can Distinguish Symbiotic from Asymbiotic Species among Modern and Fossil Scleractinian Corals”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     On the other hand, species lacking zooxanthellae preferentially form solitary coralla or poorly integrated colonies (i.e. with little or no connecting tissue) and have larger corallites; e.g., phaceloid growth forms.

Anagrams

• cephaloid