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Plural of coral

regular plural

The plural of coral is corals.

Forms of coral

Singularcoral /ˈkɒɹəl/
Pluralcorals
Countablecountable and uncountable

Corals in a sentence

  • The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.From the entry tank
  • Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.From the entry bleach
  • Some foliaceous corals are unifacial, the polyp mouths being confined to one surface.From the entry unifacial
  • Corals mount a two-stage response to heat stress, first bleaching and then dying.2023 August 7, Clive Cookson, “Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans”, in Financial Times. From the entry mount
  • There was a typical reef construction here with large plating corals at deeper depths.2011, Max Gallimore, From Here to Caprock, page 354. From the entry decompress

Meaning of coral

  1. noun Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
  2. noun A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
  3. noun A somewhat yellowish orange-pink color; the color of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.

Full definition of coral

Questions about the plural of coral

What is the plural of coral?
The plural of coral is corals.
Is coral countable?
Coral is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coral (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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