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) Pertaining to a bone of
the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians,
which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most
mammals.

Cor"a*coid, n. The coracoid
bone or process.

Cor"age (?; OF. &?;), n. See
Courage [Obs.]

To Canterbury with full devout corage.

Chaucer.

Cor"al (?), n. [Of. coral,
F, corail, L. corallum, coralium, fr. Gr.
kora`llion.] 1. (Zoöl.)
The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few
Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some
Bryozoa.

&fist; The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to
various genera of Madreporaria, and to the hydroid genus,
Millepora. The red coral, used in jewelry, is the stony
axis of the stem of a gorgonian (Corallium rubrum) found
chiefly in the Mediterranean. The fan corals, plume
corals, and sea feathers are species of
Gorgoniacea, in which the axis is horny. Organ-pipe
coral is formed by the genus Tubipora, an Alcyonarian, and
black coral is in part the axis of species of the genus
Antipathes.

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