Antonyms for coral
ˈkɔr əl, ˈkɒr-coral

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1. coralnoun

   a variable color averaging a deep pink

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   precious coral, red coral

2. coral, red coral, precious coralnoun

   the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   precious coral, red coral

3. coralnoun

   unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

   Synonyms:
   precious coral, red coral

4. coraladjective

   marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   precious coral, red coral

5. coraladjective

   of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

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1. coralnoun

   Synonyms:
   madrepora, madrepore

How to use coral in a sentence?

1. Craig Downs:

   You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef ; let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand.

2. Terry Hughes:

   If we go to 3, 4 degrees of global average warming which is tragically the trajectory we are currently on, then there won't be much left of The Great Barrier Reef or any other coral reefs throughout the tropics.

3. David Wachenfeld:

   If the water temperature decreases, bleached corals can recover from this stress. It is important to remember that we had a mass bleaching event in 2020, but there was very low coral mortality.

4. Sean Connolly:

   [In the last three decades] coral cover went from 28% to 13%. Preliminary estimates [from last year's disaster] are saying we've lost half that amount again. To have that kind of mortality on that kind of scale is unprecedented.

5. Clay Trauernicht:

   It’s within our control, potentially, to reduce the impacts that we’re seeing with fires, both in terms of forest loss as well as the impacts on coral reefs.

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