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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Coral

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Coral

Heb. ramoth, meaning "heights;" i.e., "high-priced" or valuable things, or, as some suppose, "that which grows high," like a tree (Job 28:18; Ezekiel 27:16), according to the Rabbins, red coral, which was in use for ornaments.

The coral is a cretaceous marine product, the deposit by minute polypous animals of calcareous matter in cells in which the animal lives. It is of numberless shapes as it grows, but usually is branched like a tree. Great coral reefs and coral islands abound in the Red Sea, whence probably the Hebrews derived their knowledge of it. It is found of different colours, white, black, and red. The red, being esteemed the most precious, was used, as noticed above, for ornamental purposes.


Naves Topical Index
Coral

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Coral

(Ezekiel 27:16) A production of the sea, formed by minute animals called zoophytes. It is their shell or house. It takes various forms, as of trees, shrubs, hemispheres. The principal colors are red and white. It was used for beads and ornaments. With regard to the estimation in which coral was held by the Jews and other Orientals, it must be remembered that coral varies in price with us. Pliny says that the Indians valued coral as the Romans valued pearls. (Job 28:18)


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Coral

CORAL, noun [Latin Gr.]

1. In zoology, a genus belonging to the order of vermes zoophyta. The trunk is radicated, jointed and calcarious. The species are distinguished by the form of their branches, and are found in the ocean adhering to stones, bones, shells, etc. coral was formerly supposed to be a vegetable substance, but is now known to be composed of a congeries of animals. coral is red, white and black. It is properly the shells of marine animals of the polype kind, consisting of calcarious earth combined with gelatine and other animal matter. In the South Sea, the isles are mostly coral rocks covered with earth. Corals seem to consist of carbonate of lime and animal matter, in equal proportions.

2. A piece of coral worn by children about their necks.

CORAL, adjective Made of coral; resembling coral


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Corallaceous

CORALLACEOUS, adjective Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Coralliform

CORALLIFORM, adjective [coral and form.] Resembling coral; forked and crooked.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Coralline

CORALLINE, adjective Consisting of coral; like coral; containing coral.

CORALLINE, noun A submarine plant-like body, consisting of many slender, jointed branches, resembling some species of moss; or animals growing in the form of plants, having their stems fixed to other bodies. These stems are composed of capillary tubes, which pass through a calcarious crust and open on the surface. In the Linnean system, corallines are classed with the zoophytes. They have been distributed by Ellis into vesiculated, furnished with small bodies like bladders; tubular, composed of simple tubes; celliferous, which, when magnified, appear to be fine thin cells, the habitations of small animals; and articulated, consisting of short pieces of stony or cretaceous brittle matter, covered with pores or cells, joined by a tough, membranous, flexible substance, composed of many small tubes. Butin this arrangement of Ellis, the term coralline is synonymous with the more ancient term lithophyta, including all the polypebearing animals, and nearly coinciding with the zoophyta of Linne, and the polypiers of the French naturalists.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Corallinite

CORALLINITE, noun A fossil polypier or coralline.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Corallite

CORALLITE, noun A mineral substance or petrifaction , in the form of coral; or a fossil polypier, larger than a corallinite.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Coralloid

CORALLOID, CORALLOIDAL, adjective Having the form of coral; branching like coral.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Coralloidal

CORALLOID, CORALLOIDAL adjective Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

CORALLOID, noun Eschara or hornwrack, a species of coralline, resembling woven cloth in texture, consisting of arrangements of very small cells. One species is called narrow-leaved hornwrack; another, the broad-leaved hornwrack. This name is given also to the keratophyta, horn-plant, or sea-shrub, a species of Gorgonia.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Coral-tree

CORAL-TREE, noun A genus of plants, Erythrina, of several species, natives of Africa and America. They are all shrubby flowering plants, adorned chiefly with trifoliate or three-lobed leaves, and scarlet spikes of papilionaceous flowers.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Coral-wort

CORAL-WORT, noun A genus of plants, Dentaria, called also tooth-wort or tooth-violet.