What does Coral mean?
Definitions for Coral
ˈkɔr əl, ˈkɒr-coral
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Princeton's WordNet
coralnoun
a variable color averaging a deep pink
coral, red coral, precious coralnoun
the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry
coralnoun
unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces
coraladjective
marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
coraladjective
of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color
Wiktionary
coralnoun
A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
coralnoun
A colony of marine polyps.
coraladjective
Made of coral.
coraladjective
Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.
Coralnoun
A female given name from English.
"Where are you from originally, Coral?" / "Indiana." / "Lots of Corals out there, I bet." / She hesitated, seemed about to flare, and then smiled instead, showing a little gap between two front teeth. "Well, it was Cora Lucille, I guess, " she said, still smiling, looking very much like a Cora Lucille in that moment.
Etymology: From κοράλλιον.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
CORALnoun
1.Red coral is a plant of great hardness and stony nature, while growing in the water, as it has after long exposure to the air. The vulgar opinion, that coral is soft, while in the sea, proceeds from a soft and thin coat, of a crustaceous matter, covering it while it is growing, and which is taken off before it is packed up for use. This external bark is of a fungous spongy texture, of a yellowish or greenish colour, and is full of an acrid juice resembling milk. It covers every part of the plant, and is easily separated from the internal or stony part by friction, while it is moist; but adheres to it very firmly, if suffered to dry on it. The whole coral plant grows to a foot or more in height, and is variously ramified. It is thickest at the stem, and its branches grow gradually smaller to the extremities. It grows to stones, or any other solid substances, without a root, or without any way penetrating them, as plants do the earth. It has been doubted whether coral were properly a plant or not; but as it is found to grow, and take in its nourishment in the manner of plants, and to produce flowers and seeds, or at least a matter analogous to seeds, it properly belongs to the vegetable kingdom. The ancients ascribed great virtues to red coral; but now it is only used internally as an astringent and absorbent, with other medicines of the same intention. We hear of white coral, of which the ancients make no mention; and what is sold under this name is a species of the madrepora, another sea-plant. There is a black coral of the same stony substance with the red, and as glossy as the blackest marble; but what is sold in the shops under that name, is a plant of a different genus, and of a tough horny texture. John Hill Materia Medica.
Etymology: corallium, Latin.
In the sea, upon the south-west of Sicily, much coral is found. It is a submarine plant: it hath no leaves: it brancheth only when it is under water. It is soft, and green of colour; but being brought into the air, it becometh hard and shining red, as we see. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 780.
This gentleman, desirous to find the nature of coral, caused a man to go down a hundred fathom into the sea, with express orders to take notice whether it were hard or soft in the place where it groweth. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5.
He hears the crackling sound of coral woods,
And sees the secret source of subterranean floods. John Dryden, Virg.A turret was inclos’d
Within the wall, of alabaster white,
And crimson coral, for the queen of night,
Who takes in Sylvan sports her chaste delight. Dryden.Or where’s the sense, direct or moral,
That teeth are pearl, or lips are coral? Matthew Prior.Her infant grandame’s coral next it grew;
The bells she gingled. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
CORAL
CORAL, short for Computer On-line Real-time Applications Language is a programming language originally developed in 1964 at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE), Malvern, Worcestershire, in the United Kingdom. The R was originally for "radar", not "real-time". It was influenced primarily by JOVIAL, and thus ALGOL, but is not a subset of either. The most widely-known version, CORAL 66, was subsequently developed by I. F. Currie and M. Griffiths under the auspices of the Inter-Establishment Committee for Computer Applications (IECCA). Its official definition, edited by Woodward, Wetherall, and Gorman, was first published in 1970.In 1971, CORAL was selected by the Ministry of Defence as the language for future military applications and to support this, a standardization program was introduced to ensure CORAL compilers met the specifications. This process was later adopted by the US Department of Defense while defining Ada.
ChatGPT
coral
Coral is a marine invertebrate organism from the class Anthozoa in the phylum Cnidaria. They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps" which secrete a hard exoskeleton composed of calcium carbonate, forming diverse and complex structures known as coral reefs. The polyps have tentacles that capture small animals for food and are also involved in reproduction. Some varieties of coral, known as hermatypic corals, have a symbiotic relationship with algae, which provides them with energy through photosynthesis.
Webster Dictionary
Coralnoun
the hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa
Coralnoun
the ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color
Coralnoun
a piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything
Etymology: [Of. coral, F, corail, L. corallum, coralium, fr. Gr. kora`llion.]
Wikidata
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. A coral "head" is a colony of myriad genetically identical polyps. Each polyp is a spineless animal typically only a few millimeters in diameter and a few centimeters in length. A set of tentacles surround a central mouth opening. An exoskeleton is excreted near the base. Over many generations, the colony thus creates a large skeleton that is characteristic of the species. Individual heads grow by asexual reproduction of polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning: polyps of the same species release gametes simultaneously over a period of one to several nights around a full moon. Although some corals can catch small fish and plankton, using stinging cells on their tentacles, like those in sea anemone and jellyfish, most corals obtain the majority of their energy and nutrients from photosynthetic unicellular algae that live within the coral's tissue called zooxanthella. Such corals require sunlight and grow in clear, shallow water, typically at depths shallower than 60 metres. Corals can be major contributors to the physical structure of the coral reefs that develop in tropical and subtropical waters, such as the enormous Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Other corals do not have associated algae and can live in much deeper water, with the cold-water genus Lophelia surviving as deep as 3,000 metres. Examples live on the Darwin Mounds located north-west of Cape Wrath, Scotland. Corals have also been found off the coast of the U.S. in Washington State and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Coral
kor′al, n. a hard substance of various colours growing on the bottom of the sea, composed of the skeletons of zoophytes: a child's toy made of coral.—adj. made of or like coral.—n. Cor′al-is′land.—adjs. Corallā′ceous, like, or having the qualities of, coral; Corallif′erous, containing coral; Coral′liform, having the form of coral; Corallig′enous, producing coral; Cor′alline, of, like, or containing coral.—n. a limy seaweed of a delicate pinkish or purplish colour, common on British coasts: a coral-like substance.—n. Cor′allite, a petrified substance, in the form of coral.—adjs. Cor′alloid, -al, in the form of coral: resembling coral.—ns. Cor′al-rag, a limestone rock formed chiefly of petrified coral found in the oolite system; Cor′al-reef, a reef or bank formed by the growth and deposit of coral; Cor′al-sea, the part of the Pacific between Australia on the west and the New Hebrides on the east; Cor′al-snake, a small venomous snake, in the same family as the cobra; Cor′al-tree, a small tropical tree or shrub, producing long spikes of beautiful red flowers resembling coral; Cor′al-wood, a hard South American cabinet-wood, first yellow, then red; Cor′al-wort, a cruciferous plant in English woods—called also Tooth-wort or Tooth-violet. [O. Fr.,—L. coralium—Gr. korallion.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
coral
A name applied to the hard calcareous support or skeleton of many species of marine zoophytes. The coral-producing animals abound chiefly in tropical seas, sometimes forming, by the aggregated growth of countless generations, reefs, barriers, and islands of vast extent. The "red coral" (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean is highly prized for ornamental purposes.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
CORAL
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Coral is ranked #27818 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Coral surname appeared 863 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Coral.
73.3% or 633 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
23.2% or 201 total occurrences were White.
1.6% or 14 total occurrences were Asian.
0.8% or 7 total occurrences were Black.
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Coral' in Nouns Frequency: #3002
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Anagrams for Coral »
Carlo
carol
Carol
alcor
claro
calor
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Coral in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Coral in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Coral in a Sentence
Then aligning his body with hers, maybe wrapping coils around her to hold her in place so he can position himself for copulation, but females often aren't interested, so they zoom away and hide in the coral.
And just think, a solution to the next pandemic or human illness could be discovered from healthy coral reef.
My husband and I were watching' Horror Story' and I didn't have any idea what the show would be about, the piece of coral Jennifer Andresen saw freaked me out so badly that I had to tell my husband. Up to now, I've kept it to myself because it seemed so silly, so odd.
Were going to involve the community, really, in getting us to help basically garden the coral so that it can continue to grow and survive.
This has to be viewed in the wider picture of the significant amount of evidence available that shows there are other, more important causes of coral decline such as global warming, overfishing, pollution and runoff.
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- مرجانArabic
- корал, кораловBulgarian
- coral·lí, corall, color, deCatalan, Valencian
- korálCzech
- koralDanish
- koralle, KorallenriffGerman
- κοραλλίGreek
- korala, koraloEsperanto
- coralSpanish
- sügavroosa, korallEstonian
- بسد, مرجانPersian
- korallinen, koralliFinnish
- corailFrench
- אלמוג, אַלְמוֹגHebrew
- मूंगाHindi
- մարջան, բուստախութ, բուստ, [[մարջանի]] [[խութ]]Armenian
- corallo, corallino, corallinaItalian
- אַלְמוֹגHebrew
- サンゴ, 珊瑚, 珊瑚色, コーラル, 珊瑚礁, 珊瑚製の, 珊瑚でできた, 珊瑚色のJapanese
- მარჯნის, მარჯანი, მარჯნისფერიGeorgian
- 산호, 산호색, 珊瑚Korean
- corallium, sericumLatin
- koralinis rifas, koralų rifas, koralų spalvos, koralinis, koralas, koralų, koralų spalvaLithuanian
- korallisLatvian
- haran-dranomasinaMalagasy
- kutakutaMāori
- batu karangMalay
- သန္တာBurmese
- koraal-, koraalrif, koraalrood, koraalrode, koraalDutch
- ?Oriya
- koralowina, koral, koralowy, koralowiecPolish
- coral, coralinoPortuguese
- coral, corai, coraliuRomanian
- коралловый, коралловый риф, кораллRussian
- பவளTamil
- กัลปังหา, ปะการังThai
- sagayTagalog
- mercanTurkish
- san hô, 珊瑚Vietnamese
- 珊瑚Chinese
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