organ-pipe coral

noun

: an alcyonarian coral of the genus Tubipora having a usually red or purple skeleton consisting of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by horizontal plates and being found in tropical parts of the Indian ocean and the Pacific ocean

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