coral.

1. A marine invertebrate whose polyps commonly form colonies, many producing hard mineral skeletons.

2. The hard skeletal material produced by many corals, used or encountered as a mineral-like substance.

3. A warm pinkish-orange hue.

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Words that belong together

• living coral
• a coral colony

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Living coral covered the older submerged structure.

The coral colony changed color after the prolonged stress.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Singular coral; plural corals for organisms or kinds; skeletal material usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.