Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is...
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Coral is a feminine given name derived from the precious coral used to make jewelry. The name is ultimately derived from the Greek word korallion and the...
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of the color coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those cnidarians known as precious corals. The web color coral is a shade of...
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Look up Coral or coral in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coral is a type of marine animal. Coral may also refer to: Precious coral, a red or pink gem...
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usually considered a French diminutive of the name Coral, which is derived from the name for the precious coral used to make jewelry. It was first used by French...
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Antipatharians, also known as black corals or thorn corals, are an order of soft deep-water corals. These corals can be recognized by their jet-black or...
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Fire corals (Millepora) are a genus of colonial marine organisms that exhibit physical characteristics similar to that of coral. The name coral is somewhat...
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Gemstones in the Bible (redirect from Stones, Precious, in the Bible)
"red coral". However, pearl has also been interpreted to be the meaning in these passages. The coral referred to in the Bible is the precious coral (corallium...
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Atoll (redirect from Coral atoll)
-ˈtoʊl/) is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon. There may be coral islands or cays on the rim.: 60 Atolls are located...
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Coralliidae (section Overexploitation by Coral Trade)
known as precious corals, is a taxonomic family of soft corals belonging to the suborder Scleraxonia of the phylum Cnidaria. These sessile corals are one...
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