CORAL

Coral

Corals are marine invertebrates in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.

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coral

Noun

  1. A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
  2. A colony of marine polyps.
  3. A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.

Adjective

  1. Made of coral.
  2. Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.


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