Word: Coral
How to pronounce: ˈkɒrəl
Noun
Definitions:
1. A hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas.
Example sentences: "A coral reef"
2. A sedentary coelenterate of warm and tropical seas, with a calcareous, horny, or soft skeleton. Most corals are colonial and many rely on the presence of green algae in their tissues to obtain energy from sunlight.
Example sentences: "Since the beginning of the Cenozoic, reefs have become dominated by scleractinian corals and calcareous algae."
3. The unfertilized roe of a lobster or scallop, which is used as food and becomes reddish when cooked.
Example sentences: "We had scallops with their coral, in their fluted shells"
Synonyms:
coral reef
Derivations:
coralline
Coralie
Cora
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Coral in Other Languages...
Spanish: Coral
German: Coral
French: Corail
Italian: Corallo
Turkish: Mercan
