CORAL

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~lium, from Greek korallion Date: 14th century 1. the calcareous or horny skeletal deposit produced by anthozoan or rarely hydrozoan polyps, a polyp or polyp colony together with its membranes and skeleton, a piece of ~ and especially of red ~, 3. a bright reddish ovary (as of a lobster or scallop), a deep pink, ~ adjective ~loid adjective