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2. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so
called from their color.

3. A piece of coral, usually fitted with
small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a
plaything.

Brain coral, or Brain stone
coral. See under Brain. --
Chain coral. See under Chain. -
- Coral animal (Zoöl.), one of
the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very
erroneously called coral insects. -- Coral
fish. See in the Vocabulary. -- Coral
reefs (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great
extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and
the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are
classed as fringing reefs, when they border the land;
barrier reefs, when separated from the shore by a broad
belt of water; atolls, when they constitute separate
islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See Atoll. --
Coral root (Bot.), a genus
(Corallorhiza) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or
brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and
having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of
coral.


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