precious coral

noun

1. red coral.

precious coral

noun

1. another name for red coral

Word History and Origins

Origin of precious coral¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

“They are scooping up the good with the bad in their nets just like the destruction that takes place with net fishing. The inedible fish and precious coral get swooped up with the wanted fish. Habitats are destroyed with these nets.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Straits, an equally vital body of water that's home to some of the world's most precious coral reefs, separates Havana and Key West, Florida, by a mere 90 miles.

From Time

As befitted such a great Siem, his consort, the Mahadei, was a woman of great beauty: her figure was erect and lissom and all her movements easy and graceful as the motion of the palms in the summer breeze; her hair was long and flowing, enfolding her like a wreathing cloud; her teeth were even as the rims of a cowrie; her lips were red as the precious coral and fragrant as the flower of Lasubon; and her face was fair like unto the face of a goddess.

From Project Gutenberg

The precious coral is found widespread on the borders and around the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.

From Project Gutenberg

They reinspire the like fervour which leads to the discovery of mountains as well as microbes, for may they not signify the existence within the bounds of the Great Barrier Reef of the precious coral of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea?

From Project Gutenberg