coralology
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editcoralology (uncountable)
- (very rare) The study of coral.
- 1987, Horace E. Dobbs, Classic Dives of the World, page 110:
- Here was another first for the annals of coralology. All we could do at this stage was to wonder why it ever formed.
- 1996, Charles Jerry Flora, The S.H.R.I.M.P.er's Maui: A Guide to Coral Reef Biology, page 74:
- As used in coralology, this means that in certain brain corals, adjacent valleys have separate walls.