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precious coral

n. the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry [syn: coral, red coral]

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Precious coral

Precious coral or red coral is the common name given to Corallium rubrum and several related species of marine coral. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink skeleton, which is used for making jewelry.

Usage examples of "precious coral".

The High Chief's inhuman body was magnificently decked in a pearl-studded cloth-of-gold kilt and a stomacher and upstanding collar of gold mesh inset with pearls and precious coral.

There is silver too, and platinum in bricks piled high, and precious coral in shades of pink and red and black.

And some others were set under the restless waves of seas, sharp pinnacles, as red as the precious coral he had seen shown by merchants from the southern lands.