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• pea, coral

  n. See coral pea. ...

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• Coral

  ·noun The ovaries of a cooked lobster; — so called from their color. II. Coral ·noun A piece of co...

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• Coral

  Heb. ramoth, meaning "heights;" i.e., "high-priced" or valuable things, or, as some suppose, "that w...

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• coral

  n. See bats-wing-coral. ...

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• coral

  A name applied to the hard calcareous support or skeleton of many species of marine zoophytes. The c...

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• Coral

  (Ezekiel 27:16) A production of the sea, formed by minute animals called zoophytes. It is their shel...

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• Pea

  ·noun ·see <<Peak>>, ·noun, 3. II. Pea ·noun The sliding weight on a steelyard. III. Pea ·noun A p...

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• Coral fish

  ·- Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which l...

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• Coral-rag

  ·noun ·same·as <<Corallian>>. ...

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• coral-fern

  n. name given in Victoria to Gleichenia circinata, Swartz, called in Bailey's list Parasol-Fern. Se...

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• coral-flower

  n. a plant, Epacris (q.v.), Epacris microphylla, R. Br., N.O. Epacrideae. ...

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• coral-band

  See sand and coral bank or islet. ...

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• Angola pea

  ·- A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; — so called from Angola...

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• Chick-pea

  ·noun A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich...

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• Cich-pea

  ·noun The chick-pea. ...

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• Pea-jacket

  ·noun A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather. ...

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• darling pea

  n. an Australian plant, Swainsonia galegifolia, R. Br., N.O. Leguminosae;i.q. Indigo Plant (q.v.). ...

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• flat pea

  n. a genus of Australian floweringplants, Platylobium, N.O. Leguminosae. 1793. `Transactions of Li...

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• glory pea

  See glory flower i.q. clianthus (q.v.). ...

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• heart-pea

  n. i.q. balloon-vine (q.v.). ...

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• pea, darling

  n. See darling pea. ...

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• pea, desert

  n. See Sturt's Desert Pea. ...

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• pea, flat

  n. See flat pea. ...

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• pea, glory

  n. another namefor the Clianthus (q.v.). ...

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• pea, heart

  n. i.q. balloon-vine (q.v.). ...

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• pea-plant

  n. The term is applied sometimes toany one of various Australian plants of the N.O. Leguminosae. ...

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• pea-nut

  The common name for the fruit of the arachis hypogea. It is also called the ground nut and earth nut...

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• pea-ballast

  A coarse fresh-water sand used by ships in the China trade for stowing tea-chests upon. ...

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• pea or p.-jacket

  A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth. ...

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• Stag-horn coral

  ·- ·Alt. of Stag-horn fern. ...

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• bats-wing-coral

  n. the Australian wood Erythrina vespertilio, Bentham, N.O. Leguminosae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Usef...

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• sturt's desert pea

  n. a beautiful creeper, Clianthus dampieri, Cunn., N.O. Leguminosae,which will only grow in very dr...

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• sand and coral bank

  An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...

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