precious coral

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   the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry

   Synonymscoralred coral

   Broaderopaque gem

Questions about precious coral

What does precious coral mean?

precious coral means "the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry".

What is another word for precious coral?

Close synonyms include coral, red coral. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is precious coral a common word?

precious coral is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.