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# coral

«coral» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hard, stony material made by tiny sea animals; over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (coral, uncountable; a coral, corals); adjective (coral pink)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Coral is a hard, stony material made by tiny sea animals; over many years it builds up into reefs in warm, shallow seas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#m1)

2) A coral is one of these tiny animals, or a group of them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#m2)

3) Coral is a pinkish-orange colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography, coral reefs are home to many fish and sea creatures; the Great Barrier Reef near Australia is the largest. Corals are animals, not plants, and warming seas and pollution harm them (coral bleaching). Phrases: coral reef, coral bleaching, coral island, coral pink.

### examples

- Coral reefs are full of colourful fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#x1)
- The Great Barrier Reef is made of coral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#x2)
- Coral is built by tiny animals called polyps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#x3)
- Don't touch or break the coral when you snorkel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#x4)
- Hot water can turn coral white, which is called bleaching. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#x5)
- She painted her room coral pink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#x6)
- We saw many different corals in the aquarium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#x7)
- Its walls are built of coral, and the long, gothic windows are of the clearest amber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/#x8)

### note

Mostly uncountable (made of coral), countable for kinds or single animals (corals). Myth: coral is not a plant or a rock; it is made by animals. Do not confuse with «choral» (sung by a choir), which sounds the same, or «corral» (a fenced area for horses).

### In the corpora

- [Coral reefs cover less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor but are home to about a quarter of all sea fish species.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/4/)
- [Corals are tiny animals called polyps that build limestone skeletons; algae living inside them make food from sunlight and share it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/9/)
- [When the sea gets too warm, coral throws out its algae and turns white, which is called bleaching.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones/15/)
- [The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the largest coral reef system on Earth, made of thousands of separate reefs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/11/)
- [Hawksbill turtles eat sponges that many other animals cannot eat, and this helps corals have more space to grow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «coral» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coral/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.