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   Cor·al

   /ˈkôrəl/

   

   noun

   • 1. a hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas: "a coral reef"
   • ▪ precious red coral, used in jewelry: "she was wearing a twisted rope of coral, pearls, and crystal"
   • ▪ the pinkish-red color of red coral: "colors of earth, coral, and chestnut"
   • 2. 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.
   • 3. the unfertilized roe of a lobster or scallop, which is used as food and becomes reddish when cooked: "we had scallops with their coral, in their fluted shells"

   Word Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin corallum, from Greek korallion, kouralion.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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