coral

noun

1. 1.

   A warm pink-orange color.

2. 2.

   A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.

3. 3.

   The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.

4. 4.

   A colony of marine polyps.

5. 5.

   A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.

adjective

1. 1.

   Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.

2. 2.

   Made of coral.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• coral beannounCompound term

  Shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans.

• coral bean treenounCompound term

  Deciduous shrub having racemes of deep red flowers and black-spotted red seeds.

• coral bushnounCompound term

  Australian shrub having simple obovate leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers.

• coral dropsnounCompound term

  Half-hardy Mexican herb cultivated for its drooping terminal umbels of showy red-and-white flowers.

• coral fungusnounCompound term

  Any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral.

• coral gemnounCompound term

  Low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers.

Related words

Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.

• corallorhiza maculatanounRelated term

  Common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips.