coral

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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...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• 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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• 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 pea

  n. another name for the Kennedya (q.v.). 1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53: «The trailing sc...

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• pea, coral

  n. See coral pea. ...

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• coral-band

  See sand and coral bank or islet. ...

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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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• 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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