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from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a star-coral; having the characters of the Astræidæ or star-corals: as, “astræiform in shape,”
- In the study of the madre-porarian corals, noting colonies of calycles, all of which reach the same height and seem to exhibit no tendency to grow or bud independently: from the coral genus Astræa.
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