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red coral

any of various gorgonian corals of warm seas; esp., a species (Corallium nobile) often taken from the Mediterranean region, whose smooth, hard, blood-red skeleton is used for jewelry

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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