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black coral

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables
black- -co-ral
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various tropical corals of the family Antipathidae.

Etymology

From the black colouration of their skeletons of the corals, made of chitin; unlike shallow-water corals which use calcium carbonate to build white skeletons, evident during coral bleaching events which reveal the colour of the skeletons, due to the transparent corals expelling their colourful algae symbionts.

Inflected Forms

black corals (plural)

Phrases

coral bleaching deep coral hard coral soft coral

Frequently Paired Words

coral coral bleaching coralporosis deep coral hard coral octocoral soft coral

Questions

What does black coral mean?
Any of various tropical corals of the family Antipathidae.
Where does black coral come from?
From the black colouration of their skeletons of the corals, made of chitin; unlike shallow-water corals which use calcium carbonate to build white skeletons, evident during coral bleaching events which reveal the colour of the skeletons, due to the transparent corals expelling their colourful algae symbionts.

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