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Definition of Corals
1. coral [n] - See also: coral
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corals
Literary usage of Corals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1867)
"Thus we may have Molluscan corals (Bryozoa); corals of ... also, be materially
changed by diverse interpretations of the affinities of fossil corals. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Space forbids a discussion of the proposals to classify corals after the minute
structure of their coralla, but it will suffice to say that it has been ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1870)
"Littoral and deep-water corals. Inferior Oolite Successive reefs. ... No other
corals. Lower Greensand Littoral and deep-sea corals. No reefs. ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1867)
"ON THE ZOOLOGICAL AFFINITIES OF THE TABULATE corals. ... also, be materially
changed by diverse interpretations of the affinities of fossil corals. ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"the corals as organisms as in their great luxuriance and relative prominence.
... This luxuriance of the corals implies clear seas abundantly enriched with ..."
6. Bulletin (1899)
"Mr. Robert T. Hill has submitted to me for study the various fossil corals that
he has collected in his visits, made for Professor Alexander Agassiz, ..."