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Red coral

noun

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

Corals of especially the Mediterranean having pink or red color used for ornaments and jewelry.

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... wonderful place, which might well hold his senses captive. The girls had strange outlandish names, which their father had brought home with him on his long voyages: Aina, Dolores, and Sjermanna! They wore heavy beads of red coral round their necks and in their ears. And about the garden lay gigantic conch-shells, in which one could hear the surging of the ocean, and tortoise-shells as big as a fifteen-pound loaf, and whole ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... transverse partitions or "tabulae" very highly developed. These are known as the Tabulate Corals; and recent researches on some of their existing allies (such as Heliopora) have shown that they are really allied to the modern Sea-pens, Organ-pipe Corals, and Red Coral, rather than to the typical stony Corals. Amongst the characteristic Rugose Corals of the Lower Silurian may be mentioned species belonging to the genera Columnaria, Favistella, Streptelasma, and Zaphrentis; whilst amongst the "Tabulate" Corals, the principal forms belong to the genera ...

— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

Words linked to "Red coral" : gorgonian coral, opaque gem, gorgonian, coral