[ˈkɒrəl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas
(e.g: a coral reef)

- 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

- the unfertilized roe of a lobster or scallop, which is used as food and becomes reddish when cooked
(e.g: we had scallops with their coral, in their fluted shells)


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