brain coral

brain coral

n. Any of several reef-building corals of various genera, especially Diploria, that form rounded colonies resembling the convolutions of the human brain.

brain coral

n (Animals) a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain

brain′ cor`al

n. any reef-building coral of the genera Meandrina and Diploria, having a highly convoluted surface. [1700–10]

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brain coral - massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surfacemadrepore, madriporian coral, stony coral - corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islandsgenus Maeandra, Maeandra - brain corals