Coral Sea
battle of the Coral Sea | a Japanese defeat in World War II (May ), the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers |
coral snake harlequin-snake
New World coral snake | any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, widely distributed in South America and Central America |
eastern coral snake
Micrurus fulvius | ranges from Central America to southeastern United States |
western coral snake
Micruroides euryxanthus | ranges from Central America to southwestern United States |
| coral snake Old World coral snake | any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
| Asian coral snake | of India |
African coral snake
Aspidelaps lubricus | small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange |
Australian coral snake
Rhynchoelaps australis | small venomous but harmless snake marked with black-and-white on red |
| coral | marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton, masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs |
gorgonian
gorgonian coral | corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton |
| red coral | corals of especially the Mediterranean having pink or red color used for ornaments and jewelry |
stony coral
madrepore
madriporian coral | corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands |
| brain coral | massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface |
staghorn coral
stag's-horn coral | large branching coral resembling antlers |
| mushroom coral | flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached) |
| cabbage butterfly | white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage |
southern cabbage butterfly
Pieris protodice | common North American form of cabbage butterfly |
| coral | a variable color averaging a deep pink |
cabbage
chou | any of various types of cabbage |
Chinese cabbage
celery cabbage
Chinese celery | elongated head of crisp celery-like stalks and light green leaves |
| head cabbage | any of several varieties of cabbage having a large compact globular head, may be steamed or boiled or stir-fried or used raw in coleslaw |
| red cabbage | compact head of purplished leaves |
savoy cabbage
savoy | head of soft crinkly leaves |
kohlrabi
turnip cabbage | fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant |
| coral | unfertilized lobster roe, reddens in cooking, used as garnish or to color sauces |
| stuffed cabbage | parboiled head of cabbage scooped out and filled with a hash of chopped e.g. beef or ham and baked, served with tomato or cheese sauce |
| coral reef | a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone |
| Coral Sea | an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia |
coralwood
coral-wood
red sandalwood Barbados pride
peacock flower fence
Adenanthera pavonina | East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental |
| skunk cabbage Lysichiton americanum | clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe |
pistia
water lettuce
water cabbage
Pistia stratiotes
Pistia stratoites | pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves, a widespread weed in rivers and lakes |
skunk cabbage polecat weed
foetid pothos
Symplocarpus foetidus | deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe |
coral necklace
Illecebrum verticullatum | glabrous annual with slender taproot and clusters of white flowers, western Europe especially western Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal areas |
wild cabbage
Brassica oleracea | wild original of cultivated cabbages, common in western coastal Europe |
cabbage
cultivated cabbage
Brassica oleracea | any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers |
head cabbage
head cabbage plant
Brassica oleracea capitata | any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves |
| savoy cabbage | cabbage plant with a compact head of crinkled leaves |
| red cabbage | cabbage plant with a compact head of reddish purple leaves |
rutabaga
turnip cabbage swede
Swedish turnip
rutabaga plant
Brassica napus napobrassica | a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root |
Chinese cabbage
celery cabbage
napa
pe-tsai
Brassica rapa pekinensis | plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery, used as a vegetable in east Asia |
bok choy
bok choi
pakchoi
pak choi
Chinese white cabbage
Brassica rapa chinensis | Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves |
| coral root | a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor |
spotted coral root
Corallorhiza maculata | common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips, Guatemala to Canada |
striped coral root
Corallorhiza striata | nearly leafless wildflower with erect reddish-purple stems bearing racemes of pale pinkish and brownish-striped flowers, western Canada to Mexico |
early coral root
pale coral root
Corallorhiza trifida | plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips, northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska |
crested coral root
Hexalectris spicata | orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins, southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States |
coral drops
Bessera elegans | half-hardy Mexican herb cultivated for its drooping terminal umbels of showy red-and-white flowers |
| cabbage tree grass tree Cordyline australis | elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers, New Zealand |
cabbage bark
cabbage-bark tree
cabbage tree Andira inermis | tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood, bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic |
coral tree
erythrina | any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds, cultivated as an ornamental |