Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Coral; a coral; the skeleton of a coral polypidom; the calcified tissue of the coralligenous actinozoans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See
coral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
coral orskeleton of azoophyte , whethercalcareous orhorny ,simple orcompound .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Margaritae et corallum ad melancholiam praecipue valent.
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The inside of this tree that we are looking at is all dead coral, or corallum, while the flowers that are on the outside of the trunk and branches are the living animals.
How Sammy Went to Coral-Land Emily Paret Atwater
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Bible is the precious coral (corallum rubrum), the formation of which is well known.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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