The tiny microscopic animals that secrete this polypary live by the billions in the depths of their cells.

这些以分泌物累积成珊瑚树的细小微生动物，是数以亿万计地生活在细胞里面。

A coral is a unit of tiny animals assembled over a polypary that's brittle and stony in nature.

珊瑚是一群聚集在易碎的和石质伪珊瑚树上的微生物的总体。

These polyparies were sticking to rocks, shells of mollusks, and even the stalks of water plants.

这些水螅丛附在岩石上，软体动物的介壳上，并且附在蛇婆茎上。

For some it's a polypary, and for others, such as Professor Milne-Edwards, it's a single, solitary individual.

另外一些，像爱德华先生，却认为它是独立的、单一的个体。

The sponge is definitely not a plant, as some naturalists still believe, but an animal of the lowest order, a polypary inferior even to coral.

海绵并不是植物，像现在还有些… 生物学家承认的那样。它是动物，不过是最低一目的动物，是比珊瑚更低的水熄丛。

This valuable substance often merges with other polyparies, forming compact, hopelessly tangled units known as macciota, and I noted some wonderful pink samples of this coral.

这种宝贵的物质时常杂有其他种类的珊瑚树， 因此构成名为“马西奥达”的密集和混杂的整块珊瑚，在这些整块珊瑚上面，我看到很美丽的玫瑰珊瑚品种。