stag's-horn coral

[ stagz-hawrn ]

noun

1. staghorn coral.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stag's-horn coral¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Above such hopeful sands lies a band formed of stag's-horn coral, bleached snow-white, each time lying at right angles to the sea, and higher up on the strand are blocks and lumps of weather-stained coral among which vegetation is springing.

From Project Gutenberg

Alert, I tracked the strange sound along an eccentric course to its haunt, finding nothing more than the empty shell of a huge sea urchin, which in accord with a whim of the sea had floated and was now held aloft slantwise to the lips of the wind, firm in the branching tines of stag's-horn coral.

From Project Gutenberg