endotheca

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique transverse septa, one above another.

Word forms

endotheca

Etymology

From endo- + theca (“the calcareous wall of a corallite”).

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