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Calicle

One of the small cuplike cavities often with elevated borders covering the surface of most corals Each is formed by...

slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals

by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell shaped calicles or hydrothecaelig

One of the calicles which in some Hydroidea Thecaphora protect the hydrants See Illust

One of a peculiar kind of cups or calicles found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidaelig They contain nematocysts

of corals including many reef building species having round starlike calicles

important genus of reef building corals having small twelve rayed calicles and a very porous coral Some species are branched others