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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sea gin·ger Zool. A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially Millepora alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida.  So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.