"black coral" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: black corals [plural]
Etymology: From the black colouration of their skeletons of the corals, made of chitin; unlike shallow-water corals which use calcium carbonate to build white skeletons, evident during coral bleaching events which reveal the colour of the skeletons, due to the transparent corals expelling their colourful algae symbionts. Etymology templates: {{l|en|black}} black, {{l|en|skeleton|skeletons}} skeletons, {{l|en|coral|corals}} corals, {{l|en|chitin}} chitin, {{l|en|calcium carbonate}} calcium carbonate, {{l|en|white}} white, {{l|en|coral bleaching}} coral bleaching Head templates: {{en-noun}} black coral (plural black corals)
  1. Any of various tropical corals of the family Antipathidae. Wikipedia link: black coral Categories (lifeform): Cnidarians Hypernyms: deep coral, coral Related terms: coral, coral bleaching, coralporosis, deep coral, hard coral, octocoral, soft coral

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