sclerobase

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”) + βᾰ́σις (básis, “stepping, step”).

Noun

sclerobase (plural sclerobases)

  1. (zoology) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sclerobase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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