different between coral vs zoophyte

English

Etymology

From Old French coral (French corail), from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion, “coral”). Probably ultimately of Semitic origin, compare Hebrew ???????? (goral, “small pebble”), Arabic ?????? (jaral, “small stone”), originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to Ancient Greek ???? (kór?) (referring to Medusa). Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???l/
  • Homophone: choral
• Rhymes: -???l, -????l

Noun

coral (countable and uncountable, plural corals)

1. (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
2. (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
3. (countable) A somewhat yellowish pink colour; the colour of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
4. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
5. (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.

Translations

Adjective

coral (not comparable)

1. Made of coral.
2. Having the orange-pink colour of coral.

Derived terms

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See also

References

• coral on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carlo, Carol, Claro, Clora, carol, claro

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko??al/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku??al/

Etymology 1

cor (“heart”) +? -al

Adjective

coral (masculine and feminine plural corals)

1. strong, close (relationship)

Etymology 2

cor (“choir”) +? -al.

Adjective

coral (masculine and feminine plural corals)

1. choral

Noun

coral m (plural corals)

1. chorus music
2. chorale

Etymology 3

Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corals)

1. coral (organism)

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko??al/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese coral, borrowed from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corais)

1. (zoology) coral
   • 1395, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 160:

     mando a miña Neta Tareija sanches todo o aliofar et coraes que eu ey et os esmaltes et o meu Reliquario esmaltado et a miña Cunca de plata dourada et as miñas doas de ouro

     I send to my granddaughter Tareixa Sanchez all of my pearls and corals, and the enamels, and my enamelled relicary and my gilded silver bowl and my beads of gold

2. coral (color)
3. roe (the eggs or ovaries of certain crustaceans)

   Synonym: míllaras

4. sea fan (Eunicella verrucosa)

Etymology 2

coro (“choir”) +? -al.

Adjective

coral m or f (plural corais)

1. choral

Noun

coral f (plural corais)

1. chorale

References

• “coral” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “coral” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “coral” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “coral” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coral” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French coral, from Old French corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ko??al]

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

1. coral
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 14v.

     DEl dozeno grado del ?igno de tauro es la piedra aque dizen coral negro.

     Of the twelfth degree of the sign of Taurus is the stone they call black coral.

Descendants

• Ladino: koral
• Spanish: coral

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko??aw/

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin choralis, equivalent to coro +? -al.

Alternative forms

• choral (obsolete)

Noun

coral m (plural corais)

1. (music) choir (ensemble of people who sing together)

   Synonym: coro

2. (music) choral song (song written for a choir to perform)
3. (music) chorale (a Lutheran hymn)
4. (figuratively) a group of people, creatures or objects making noise together

Adjective

coral m or f (plural corais, comparable)

1. (music) choral (relating to choirs)
2. (music) choral (written to be performed by a choir)

Etymology 2

From Late Latin corallum or Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion, “coral”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

coral m (plural corais)

1. coral (any of various species of anthozoans)
2. coral (the skeleton of marine polyps)
3. coral (colony of marine polyps)
4. coral (a yellowish pink colour)

Noun

coral f (plural corais)

1. Short for cobra-coral.

Adjective

coral m or f (plural corais, comparable)

1. coral in colour

   Synonym: coralino

Romanian

Etymology

From French choral

Adjective

coral m or n (feminine singular coral?, masculine plural corali, feminine and neuter plural corale)

1. choral

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko??al/, [ko??al]
• Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish coral, from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

1. (zoology) coral
2. (botany) coral vine (Kennedia coccinea)

Derived terms

• arrecife de coral (“coral reef”)
• coral pétreo
• Gran Barrera de Coral

Adjective

coral (plural corales)

1. coral (color)

Etymology 2

coro (“choir”) +? -al.

Adjective

coral (plural corales)

1. choral

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

1. chorale

References

• “coral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• zoöphyte
• zoophite
• zoöphite

Etymology

From zoo- +? -phyte, after Middle French zoophyte; later reinforced by scientific Latin Zoophyta.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?z???fa?t/, /?zu?fa?t/

Noun

zoophyte (plural zoophytes)

1. (biology, historical) An animal thought to have the characteristics of a plant, later specifically an invertebrate of the (former) group Zoophyta, comprising sponges, corals and sea anemones. [from 17th c.]
2. (biology, historical) A plant believed to have the characteristics of an animal, especially a sensitive plant or vegetable lamb. [from 17th c.]
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XIX:

     And besides, as there are many Zoophyts, and sensitive Plants […] so have we, in some Authors, Instances of Plants turning into Animals, and Animals into Plants, and the like […]

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