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- Coral - n. - The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
- Coral - n. - The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.
- Coral - n. - A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
- Coral fish - - Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.
- Coral-rag - n. - Same as Corallian.
- Coraled - a. - Having coral; covered with coral.
- Corallaceous - a. - Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.
- Corallian - n. - A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag.
- Coralliferous - a. - Containing or producing coral.
- Coralliform - a. - resembling coral in form.
- Coralligena - n. pl. - Same as Anthozoa.
- Coralligenous - a. - producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous.
- Coralligerous - a. - Producing coral; coralliferous.
- Corallin - n. - A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.
- Coralline - a. - Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.
- Coralline - n. - A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
- Coralline - n. - Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.
- Corallinite - n. - A fossil coralline.
- Corallite - n. - A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.
- Corallite - n. - One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal.
- Coralloid - a. - Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
- Coralloidal - a. - resembling coral; coralloid.
- Corallum - n. - The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
- Coralwort - n. - A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.
- Reef - n. - A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
- Madreporiform - a. - Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.
- Astraean - n. - A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral.
- Sea ginger - - A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.
- Coralliform - a. - resembling coral in form.
- Corallum - n. - The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
- Isis - n. - Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea.
- Fission - n. - A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.
- Tubiporite - n. - Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.
- Heliopora - n. - An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.
- Elaps - n. - A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
- Tridacna - n. - A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.
- Sea willow - - A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.
- Fungite - n. - A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
- Aporosa - n. pl. - A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.
- Septal - a. - Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.
- Porite - n. - Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidae.
- Sea scurf - - Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.
- Madrepore - n. - Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.
- Lagoon - n. - A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.
- Millepore - n. - Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.
- Sclerobase - n. - The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma.
- Heliolite - n. - A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.
- Keratophyte - n. - A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.
- Erythrina - n. - A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.
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- Ezekiel 26 27:16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
אֲרָם סָחַר רֹב מַעֲשֶׂה נָתַן עִזָּבוֹן נֹפֶךְ אַרְגָּמָן רִקְמָה בּוּץ רָאמָה כַּדְכֹּד - Job 18 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
זָכַר רָאמָה גָּבִישׁ מֶשֶׁךְ חׇכְמָה פָּנִין