Word Finder - coral

definition

A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.

definition

A colony of marine polyps.

definition

A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.

definition

The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.

definition

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

definition

Made of coral.

definition

Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.

They contain corals, but are not coral reefs.

There is coral along the coasts everywhere, and the Sentinel Islands are composed of the newer rocks with a superstructure of coral.

Around the coast there is a raised shelf of limestone which was undoubtedly a coral reef.

The people are employed in fishing for coral and sponges, as well as for bream, mullet and other fish.

The islands are of coral formation and low-lying.

A vast variety of trinketsin coral, glass, lava, &c.is exported from Italy, or carried away by the annual host of tourists.

They are coral islands of comparatively recent elevation, and in no place rise more than 250 ft.

Her eyes" (Nicholas looked at his partner) "are blue, her mouth coral and ivory; her figure" (he glanced at her shoulders) "like Diana's...."

Most of the fishing boats, properly so called, start from the Adriatic coast, the coral boats from the western Mediterranean coast, and the sponge boats from the western Mediterranean and Sicilian coasts.

A coral reef lies across the entrance.

The town occupies the whole of a small coral island at the mouth of Mossoril Bay.

The coral reefs are of especial interest from their bearing on the general question of the formation of coral reefs.

Except such as are of coral formation, the Antilles are hilly, not to say mountainous, their summits rising in places to an elevation of 8000 ft., and nearly all, prior to their occupation by Europeans, were covered with luxuriant forest, which, assisting in the collection and condensation of the clouds brought by the trade winds, ensured its own vitality by precipitating frequent and long-continued rains; upon the fertile soil.

The coral is generally reddish, but the colouring ranges from light yellow to chocolate-brown.

They are quite distinct in their formation from the coral reefs of the same coast.

What I seek from thy country is gold, silver, coral, and scarlet."

All the rocks are of basalt and greyishtinted lavas, excepting some beds of upraised coral.

The greater elevations are for the most part formed of limestones, except in the south, where they are largely volcanic. The coasts of the Gulf of Akaba are steep, with numerous coral reefs on both sides.

The Oceanic series is generally overlaid directly, and unconformably, by coral limestones; but at Bissex Hill, at the base of the coral limestones, and resting unconformably upon the Oceanic series, there is a Globigerina marl.

Evidence of recent elevation of the island is furnished by masses of coral reef and beach coral rock standing at heights of 40 ft.

The surrounding seas contain great numbers of fish; the coral reefs abound with a great variety of molluscs; and there are numerous land-shells.

The coast-line is of coral formation and is, in the neighbourhood of Massawa, thickly studded with small islands.

Coral limestones, probably of Middle Tertiary age, are also found, sometimes 4000 ft.

The coral beds of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago are of unsurpassed beauty, and Guimaras, Cebu and Siquijor are completely covered with a thick cap of coral limestone.

The soil, usually of a reddish-brown colour, is for the most part disintegrated lava mixed with decayed vegetation; occasionally there is also a mixture of disintegrated coral limestone.

Temples are very rare, though these blocks of coral are sometimes surrounded by a roofless enclosure opening to the west.

The houses in the Gilberts and Marshalls (much less elaborate than in the Carolines) consist merely of a thatched roof resting on posts or on blocks of coral about 3 ft.

The margin of the Red Sea itself consists, on the Arabian side, of a strip of low plain backed by ranges of barren hills of coral and sand formation, and here and there by mountains of considerable height.

Coral formations are abundant; immense reefs, both barrier and fringing, skirt both coasts, often enclosing wide channels between the reef and the land.

This tableland is formed by a huge cap of coral limestone, estimated by Griesbach at from 4000 to 5000 ft.

Immediately on the west of the Kaisargarh there towers the Shingarh Mountain, a geological repetition of the Kaisargarh ridge, black with pines towards the summit and crowned with crags of coral limestone.

The entrance is contracted by Tiran and other islands, so that the passage is rendered somewhat difficult; and its navigation is dangerous on account of the numerous coral reefs, and the sudden squalls which sweep down from the adjacent mountains, many of which rise perpendicularly to a height of 2000 ft.

The typical Silurian rocks are richly fossiliferous, the shales containing trilobites, the sandstones many brachiopods, and the limestones a rich coral and bryozoan fauna.

The rest of the group are of coral formation.

As for the boundaries of these ancient seas, we can say nothing with certainty, but it is of interest to note the evidence we possess of still older land conditions, such as we have in the old rocks of Shropshire, &c. In the Devonian period it is clear that an elevatory movement had set in towards the north, which gave rise to the formation of inland lakes and narrow estuaries in which the Old Red Sandstone rocks were formed, while in the south of England lay the sea with a vigorous coral fauna.

The specialities of Naples are the manufacture of coral, tortoise-shell, kid gloves and macaroni, but it has been growing also as an industrial centre.

It is approached by a deep channel through the coral reef which fringes the entire eastern side of the island.

Except Bird and Denis islands, which are of coralline limestone, the Seychelles are of granite, with in places fringing reefs of coral based on granite foundations.

The forests of the coast belt resembled those of the coral islands of the neighbouring parts of the Indian Ocean.

The archipelago consists of a number of coral islets and atolls comprising the African Islands (4), the St Joseph group (8), the Poivre Islands (9) and the Alphonso group (3).

Like the Amirantes all the other islands named are of coral formation.

Among the ophidians, which include many harmless species, are the boa-constrictor, rattlesnake, the dreaded Lachesis and the coral snake.

This comparison, though far-fetched, is certainly more reasonable than the common name "coral-insects" applied to the polyps which form coral.

Although corals have been familiar objects since the days of antiquity, and the variety known as the precious red coral has been for a long time an article of commerce in the Mediterranean, it was only in the 18th century that their true nature and structure came to be understood.

He was thus able to see that the so-called "flowers of coral" were in fact nothing else than minute polyps resembling seaanemones.

The hard calcareous substance to which the name coral is applied is the supporting skeleton of certain members of the Anthozoa, one of the classes of the phylum Coelentera.

Although of great interest the Pennatulacea do not form an enduring skeleton or" coral,"and need not be considered in detail in this place.

Heliopora coerulea is found between tide-marks on the shore platforms of coral islands.

In this coral the calicle is divided into quadrants by four principal septa, the main septum, counter septum, and two alar septa.

The connexion between the Cyathophyllidae and modern Astraeidae is shown by Moseleya latistellata, a living reef-building coral from Torres Strait.