| 单词 | red coral | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasred coral  a.  Historically, and in earlier literature and folklore, the name belongs to the beautiful  red coral, an arborescent species, found in the Red Sea and Mediterranean, prized from times of antiquity for ornamental purposes, and often classed among precious stones.  pink coral: a pale variety of this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > coral > 			[noun]		 red coralc1305 blood1824 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > concretion or petrifaction > 			[noun]		 > coral coralc1305 red coral?c1335 ruby coral1632 lithophyton1646 coralline1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > 			[noun]		 > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of > substance of coralc1305 coralline1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > 			[noun]		 > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Gorgonacea > member of family Corallidae coralc1305 coralline1860 c1305    Land Cokayne 70  				Of grene Jaspe and red corale. a1398    J. Trevisa tr.  Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum 		(BL Add. 27944)	 		(1975)	 II.  xvi. xxxii. 842  				Coralle is ygendred in þe Reede See and is tree as longe as it is yhiled wiþ water, but anon as it is ydrawe out of þe water..it torneþ into stoon. c1405						 (c1387–95)						    G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 		(Hengwrt)	 		(2003)	 l. 158  				Of smal Coral aboute hir arm she bar A peyre of bedes gauded al with greene. 1483    Cath. Angl. 86  				Curalle, corallus. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 Lament. iv. 7  				Their colour was fresh read as the Corall, their beutie like the Saphyre. 1584    R. Wilson Three Ladies Lond. in  W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays 		(1874)	 VI. 276  				Coral will look pale when you be sick. 1609    W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxx. sig. H4  				Currall is farre more red, then her lips  red.       View more context for this quotation 1631    E. Jorden Disc. Nat. Bathes 		(1669)	 v. 34  				Coral also being a Plant, and nourished with this juice, turns to a stone. 1665    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 1 116  				Whole Forrests of Coral at the bottom of the Red Sea. 1789    H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 258  				The coral here is such as can be seen nowhere else. 1861    R. T. Hulme tr.  C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool.  ii. iii. ii. 87  				Red Coral..is found attached to rocks at the bottom of the sea..Coral was for a long time regarded as a marine plant. red coral   red coral  n. any of various red gorgonian corals of the genus  Corallium; esp.  C. nobile of the Mediterranean and Pacific, which is used in jewellery. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > concretion or petrifaction > 			[noun]		 > coral coralc1305 red coral?c1335 ruby coral1632 lithophyton1646 coralline1863 ?c1335						 (a1300)						    Land of Cokaygne 70 in  W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte 		(1904)	 146 (MED)  				Grene Iaspe and rede corale. ?a1430    T. Hoccleve Praise of his Lady l. 3 in  Minor Poems 		(1970)	  ii. 311  				Hir browes been lyk to dym reed coral. 1544    Bk. Chyldren in  T. Phaer tr.  J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe 		(new ed.)	 sig. e.iiv  				Redde coralle..hanged about the neck, whervpon the chylde shuld oftentymes labour his gummes. 1667    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 2 432  				Red Coral..is fished from the beginning of April till the end of July. 1752    J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 97  				The large Biota of the red Coral. 1878    T. H. Huxley Physiography 		(ed. 2)	 xv. 249  				It is termed a cup coral to distinguish it from other kinds of coral, as red coral. 2007    Science 25 May 1113/3  				The United States has proposed international controls on the little-known trade of red coral, a deep-water species. < as lemmas | 
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