virgularian
English
editEtymology
editLatin virgula (“a small rod”).
Noun
editvirgularian (plural virgularians)
- (zoology) Any of numerous corals of Virgularia and allied genera in the family Virgularidae.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “virgularian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)