LITHOPHYTE


Meaning of LITHOPHYTE in English

( n. )

A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.

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