CORAL

Aug 7, 2025

Noun: a hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas

Noun: a sedentary coelenterate of warm and tropical seas, with a calcareous, horny, or soft skeleton. Most corals are colonial and many rely on the presence of green algae in their tissues to obtain energy from sunlight

Noun: the unfertilized roe of a lobster or scallop, which is used as food and becomes reddish when cooked