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Coral

noun

A variable color averaging a deep pink.

The hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry. Synonyms: precious coral, red coral.

Unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces.

Marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs.

adjective

Of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color.

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"Coral" Quotes from Famous Books

... young swans are grey, and the old white, young trees tender and the old tough, young men amorous, and, growing in years, either wiser or warier. The coral plant in the water is a soft weed, on the land a hard stone: a sword frieth in the fire like a black eel; but laid in earth like white snow: the heart in love is altogether passionate; but free ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... the stiffness spread Through every twig and leaf. The Nereid nymphs More branches bring, and try the wonderous change On all, and joy to see the change succeed: Spreading the transformation from the seeds, With them throughout the waves. This nature still Retains the coral: hardness still assumes From contact with the air; beneath the waves A bending twig; an harden'd ...

— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

... terror. It is difficult to gauge the passage of time accurately at such a moment, but I think this shock must have lasted nearly, if not quite, two minutes; and the sensation to which I can most nearly compare it is that of a ship being swept and jolted over the rough surface of a coral ...

— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood

... coral house, I call it Zacuan by name; And must I leave it, do you say? Oh my, oh me, and ah ...

— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton

... peculiar campanile of white marble which deviates 14 ft. from the perpendicular, known as the leaning tower of Pisa, several old and beautiful churches, a university, school of art, and library. Silks and ribbons are woven, and coral ornaments cut. In the 11th century Pisa was at the zenith of its prosperity as a republic, with a great mercantile fleet, and commercial relations with all the world. Its Ghibelline sympathies involved it in terrible struggles, in which it gradually ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

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