any hydrozoan coelenterate of the order Milleporina (or Hydrocorallinae), which includes the millepores
Word origin
C20: from hydro- + coral
Examples of 'hydrocoral' in a sentence
hydrocoral
A total of 32 coral species (9 octocorals, 1 hydrocoral, 22 scleractinians) were documented among therecruit community.
Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Carmen M. González-Ramos, Pedro J. Alejandro-Camis 2014, 'Large-scale coral recruitment patterns on Mona Island, Puerto Rico: evidence of atransitional community trajectory after massive coral bleaching and mortality', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442014000700012&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)