how to pronounce coral

/ˈkɔːɹəl/

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coral is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of coral in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… the coral reefs will die as of 2019 1 …”

meanings of coral

noun:

A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
A colony of marine polyps.
A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.

adjective:

Made of coral.
Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.

name:

A female given name from English.

coral frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word coral occurs in english on average 8.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics coral can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that coral can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;