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coraller

coraller noun: a person who dives into deep water to collect coral.

Noun

coraller (plural corallers)

  1. A person who dives into deep water to collect coral.
    • The Bahama corallers come over and collect various kinds of beautiful coral in the Florida seas, known as tree, finger, brain, and red coral.1899, William Henry Parr Greswell, The United States and Their Industries, page 180
    • Corals were graded, and fetched prices accordingly. Curiously, the Jewish 'corallers' made even Christian religious objects, such as paternosters and crosses.2011, Shlomo Simonsohn, Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Jews in Sicily, page 434

Forms of coraller

pluralcorallers

Origin of coraller

From coral + -er.

Questions about coraller

What does coraller mean?
Coraller means a person who dives into deep water to collect coral.
What part of speech is coraller?
Coraller is a noun.
What is the plural of coraller?
The plural of coraller is corallers.

Words near coraller in the dictionary

  1. coralizing
  2. coralla
  3. corallaceous
  4. corallanid
  5. corallanids
  6. coraller
  7. corallers
  8. corallicolid
  9. corallicolids
  10. coralliferous
  11. coralliform

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