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• 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
• Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.From the entry fishes
• Some foliaceous corals are unifacial, the polyp mouths being confined to one surface.From the entry unifacial
• The incoming tides bathed the coral reef.From the entry bathe
• They wore snorkels while exploring the coral reef.From the entry snorkel
• 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
• Only Minzhu Reef rises above the waterline, while the rest are submerged coral reefs.[2016 March 23, “Position Paper on ROC South China Sea Policy”, in Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Auckland, →ISBN, archived from…. From the entry Scarborough Shoal
• All this is very bad news for coral, which has a fairly limited temperature comfort zone.2015, The Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2000, →ISBN. From the entry comfort zone
• Finally, coral reef POM constitutes a source of OM for planktonic invertebrates and planktonophagous fish.2015 July 2, Briand MJ, Bonnet X, Goiran C, Guillou G, Letourneur Y, “Major Sources of Organic Matter in a Complex Coral Reef Lagoon…. From the entry planktonophagous
• Many species of coral are calcifiers; this is how they construct the towering structures that become reefs.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry calcifier
• A cast of blue crabs weathered the underwater turbulence by clinging to coral with their claws.2011, J. E. Bright, Deepwater Disaster, Stone Arch Books. From the entry cast
• 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
• Unlike Taiwan's other islands, Liuchiu Island was formed entirely of coral deposits.2008, Scott B. Freiberger, “Islands in the Strait”, in Taipei in a Day, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 87, column 1. From the entry Liuchiu
• There was another big piece of coral that he later on made into a bowguard.1996, James Ostler, Marian E. Rodee, Milford Nahohai, Zuni: a village of silversmiths, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry bowguard
• As used in coralology, this means that in certain brain corals, adjacent valleys have separate walls.1996, Charles Jerry Flora, The S.H.R.I.M.P.er's Maui: A Guide to Coral Reef Biology, page 74. From the entry coralology
• Ride past Kenting to Oluanpi to see coral formations and the lighthouse.1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101. From the entry Oluanpi
• That which applies to calcificating coral-line, might also apply to sceleractinian corals.1993 April 21, Steve Tyree, “Algae Scrubbers [M]”, in alt.aquaria (Usenet), retrieved 09 May 2022. From the entry calcificate
• Those in rock fissures or coral crevices have stouter and more pyriform bodies.1992, Edward Bayler Cutler, The Sipuncula: Their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution, page 145. From the entry pyriform
• Coral trout, red with purple spots, lay in wait, ready to ambush unsuspecting prey.1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 114. From the entry coral trout
• The chain coral Halysites, one corallite partially cut away to expose tabulae.1987, E. W. Nield, Drawing & Understanding Fossils: A Theoretical and Practical Guide for Beginners, with Self-assessment, Pergamon Press…. From the entry tabula
• Van chased a sweetlip, and it scuttled safely under a coral ledge.1969, Ben Cropp, Whale of a Shark, page 67. From the entry sweetlip
• The corals have the shape of a shrub and are green.1960, Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer, Animal and Man in Bible Lands: Supplement, page 86. From the entry berry
• Once there were islands all asprout with palms: and coral reefs and sands as white as milk.1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone. From the entry asprout
• The hundred yards of coral took him a quarter of an hour.1954, Ian Fleming, “Beau Desert”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 204. From the entry brain coral
• The walls had to be a most tender shade of washed out coral.1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 33, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry bittiness
• Coral, apricot and peach pinks, henna, brick and tile reds are in this group.1948, Dorothy Cocks, Quick Steps to Beauty and Charm, page 35. From the entry tile red
• The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.1944, C. G. Morris, Hugh B. Cave, “The Fightin’est Ship”: The Story of the Cruiser “Helena”, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 62. From the entry hamburger
• Coral, another company trying to upend the salon industry, obtained $4.3 million in venture funding around the same time.2021 June 1, Ellen Rosen, “Want Your Nails Done? Let a Robot Do It.”, in The New York Times. From the entry upend
• Stands of staghorn coral were bleaching white.2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 212. From the entry staghorn coral
• Zhaoshu Island (ZSI) is one of the main coral reef islands of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea.2021, Ming Chen, Fenzhen Su, Fei Cheng, Yu Zhang, Xuege Wang, “Development of a comprehensive assessment model for coral reef island…. From the entry Tree Island
• Varieties like “Shindeshojo,” “Orange Dream,” “Akane” and “Coral Magic,” have stunning brink pink, orange or coral foliage in spring.2017 April 27, Steve Smith, “Notes from a gardener with a Japanese maple addiction”, in Washington Herald. From the entry brink pink
• Species living in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Northern Sea had similar encephalisation indices compared to the indopacific coral reef dwelling species.2015 August 12, “Relative Brain and Brain Part Sizes Provide Only Limited Evidence that Machiavellian Behaviour in Cleaner Wrasse Is…. From the entry indopacific
• Coral clasped her hands, gave a Mary Poppins-esque click of her heels and launched into a well-rehearsed speech.2015, Christine Melville Kenworthy, Gathering Nuts, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry Mary Poppins-esque
• Some forams allow single-celled algae to lodge on the surface of their bodies, rather as tropical coral do.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 291. From the entry foram
• Unlike stony corals and other anthozoa, whose polyps have sixfold symmetry, the polyps of a gorgonian have eightfold symmetry.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134. From the entry anthozoon
• About 33 genus 47 species corals were discovered in the so-called "Xiala Formation(Ft)" in north of Oma Village, Gêrzê County, Tibet.2011 March, Zhansheng Ji, J.-X. Yao, Guichun Wu, “Discovery of the Late Jurassic coral fauna in the Tukari Formation at northern Oma…. From the entry oma
• Thankfully, again there were many new corals.2011, Max Gallimore, From Here to Caprock, page 354. From the entry decompress
• Corals were graded, and fetched prices accordingly.2011, Shlomo Simonsohn, Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Jews in Sicily, page 434. From the entry coraller
• The bolts were stacked near a wall in shades of teal, seafoam, turquoise, navy, sapphire, sky blue, cream, gold, crimson, coral.2008 May 28, Eric Konigsberg, “A City Tailor Who Revels in the Boldest Sportswear”, in New York Times. From the entry seafoam

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.

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Questions about coral in a sentence

How do you use coral in a sentence?

Coral is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.”

What is a short sentence with coral?

“Corals were graded, and fetched prices accordingly.”

What does coral mean?

Coral means 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.