A small brightly coloured solitary coral with tentacles that end in small knobs, sometimes found in colder seas.
丁香珊瑚
Genus Caryophyllia, order Scleractinia (or Madreporaria): several species
Example sentencesExamples
We found a lovely archway with a large swim-through completely covered in orange cup coral.
We found boxer crabs (they are still there!) and blue ring octopus at Siladen, cup coral snails at Manado Tua, and ghost pipefish near the famous giant clams at Fukui.
With clever camouflage techniques, golden wentletraps and their eggs are almost invisible against the cup coral host.
He was kind enough to identify many of them for me, and in the process informed me that I had a nice shot of a scarlet and gold cup coral.
There are writhing carpets of brittle stars, as well as patches with the occasional cup coral and dead man's finger.
Definition of cup coral in US English:
cup coral
noun
A small brightly colored solitary coral with tentacles that end in small knobs, sometimes found in colder seas.
丁香珊瑚
Genus Caryophyllia, order Scleractinia (or Madreporaria): several species, including the Devonshire cup coral (C. smithi), of European waters
Example sentencesExamples
We found a lovely archway with a large swim-through completely covered in orange cup coral.
He was kind enough to identify many of them for me, and in the process informed me that I had a nice shot of a scarlet and gold cup coral.
We found boxer crabs (they are still there!) and blue ring octopus at Siladen, cup coral snails at Manado Tua, and ghost pipefish near the famous giant clams at Fukui.
With clever camouflage techniques, golden wentletraps and their eggs are almost invisible against the cup coral host.
There are writhing carpets of brittle stars, as well as patches with the occasional cup coral and dead man's finger.