The meaning of Coral

noun

A hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas.

Usage examples:

A coral reef

noun

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.

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Since the beginning of the cenozoic, reefs have become dominated by scleractinian corals and calcar…

noun

The unfertilized roe of a lobster or scallop, which is used as food and becomes reddish when cooked.

Usage examples:

We had scallops with their coral, in their fluted shells

adjective

A very small ocean creature that often forms reefs

noun

A hard substance formed in the sea from masses of shells of very small sea animals, usually orange or red in color