coral

英 ['kɒr(ə)l] 美 ['kɔrəl]

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※ 提供单词"coral"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

coral 珊瑚

来自希伯来闪族语。

coral: coral: [14] Coral may ultimately be of Semitic origin (Hebrew gōrāl ‘pebble’ has been compared), but the first record we have of it is as Greek korállion, which came to English via Latin corallum or corallium and Old French coral. Until the 17th century, the word was applied exclusively to the red coral (Corallium nobile); hence its use, since the early 16th century, for a ‘rich red colour’.
coral (n.): c. 1300, from Old French coral (12c., Modern French corail), from Latin corallium, from Greek korallion; perhaps of Semitic origin (compare Hebrew goral "small pebble," Arabic garal "small stone"), originally just the red variety found in the Mediterranean, hence use of the word as a symbol of "red." Related: Coralline. Coral snake (1760) is so called for the red zones in its markings. Coral reef is attested from 1745.

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2. These snails do not occur on low-lying coral islands or atolls.: 在地势低平的珊瑚岛或环礁上没有这种螺。

3. A coral reef is built by the accretion of tiny, identical organisms.: 珊瑚礁是由许多相同的微生物不断堆积而成。