Color Names

Japanese Coral

Muted pink of coral in a secret garden, not the bright stuff on the reef.

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Japanese Coral is a muted pink, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Japanese Coral

Coral

Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the subphylum Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.

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Coral (color)

The various tones of the color coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those cnidarians known as precious corals.

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coral

Noun

  1. 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. A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.

Adjective

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