The shared tissue or living material that connects individual polyps in a coral colony, allowing them to function as a unified organism.
From Greek 'koinos' (common) + 'enchyma' (tissue). This term describes the connecting tissue unique to colonial animals.
Coral colonies are basically thousands of tiny clones all connected by shared tissue—they eat together, defend together, and grow together as a superorganism.
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