corals
- 1Plural of coral.
Warming oceans now threaten corals throughout the tropics.
Researchers tracked how the corals recovered after the last bleaching event.
Note
A regular -s plural that belongs mainly to the living animals: corals are species or colonies, counted one by one. The hard skeletal material they leave behind is a mass noun, so a reef is built of coral, not of corals. The plural can also name shades of the yellowish orange-pink color, as in a palette of soft corals and pinks, while the substance itself stays singular.
corals is a form of coral
coral, noun: A marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa, typically living in colonies and building a hard calcium carbonate skeleton, or a colony of such animals. Full entry
- Forms
- coralcorals plural
- Spelling
- coral → corals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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