| 单词 | precious coral |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprecious coral precious coral n. (more fully precious red coral) a branching, pinkish-red horny coral of the genus Corallium (order Gorgonacea); esp. C. rubrum of the Mediterranean, whose calcareous skeleton is used in jewellery; also called red coral. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > member of suborder Antipatharia precious coral1863 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. iii. i. 163 The Precious Coral used in jewelry comes from the shores of Sicily and Southern Italy, and belongs to this Alcyonoid division. It is related to the Gorgonias, but the axis is red and stony (calcareous) instead of being horny, and this stony axis is the coral so highly esteemed. 1906 S. J. Hickson in Cambr. Nat. Hist. I. xiii. 352 The ‘precious coral’ occurs in the Mediterranean. 1987 R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 5) v. 134/2 The gorgonian, or horny, corals..include the whip corals, sea feathers, sea fans, and precious red coral. < as lemmas |
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