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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Having the character of coral, or containing coral.
- noun Specifically, in geology, noting a division of the Jurassic system lying above the Oxfordian and below the Kimmeridgian and in England including the coral rag, coralline oölite, and calcareous grit.
- noun In geology, the corallian division.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A
deposit ofcoralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of theoolite .
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