HALYSITES

Meaning of HALYSITES in English

/hal'i suy"teez/ , n.

an extinct genus comprising the chain corals.

[ hálys ( is ) chain + -ites -ITE 1 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

HALYSITES — ˌhalə̇ˈsīd.(ˌ)ēz noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Greek halysis chain + New Latin -ites : a genus consisting of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HALYSITES — (n.) A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.
Английский словарь Webster
HALYSITES — ( n. ) A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HALYSITES — noun a genus of silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. ·see chain coral, under chain.
Webster English vocab
HALYSITES — extinct genus of corals found as fossils in marine rocks from the Late Ordovician Period to the end of the …
Britannica English vocabulary
CHAIN CORAL — noun : a fossil coral (genus Halysites ) common in the upper Ordovician and Silurian rocks having tubular corallites of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHAIN CORAL — coral of the extinct genus Halysites, from the Ordovician and Silurian periods, consisting of oval, laterally compressed corallites united to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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