Fire Coral Definition

noun
Any of various brownish-yellow reef-building colonial hydrozoans of the genus Millepora having an encrusting or branching calcareous skeleton and nematocysts that release stinging barbs.
American Heritage Medicine

Origin of Fire Coral

  • From the painful stings

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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