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Coral necklace   /kˈɔrəl nˈɛkləs/   Listen
Coral necklace

noun
1.
Glabrous annual with slender taproot and clusters of white flowers; western Europe especially western Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal areas.  Synonym: Illecebrum verticullatum.






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"Coral necklace" Quotes from Famous Books



... drowned or blown up somewhere I went up Windmill hill to the flats that Sunday morning with captain Rubios that was dead spyglass like the sentry had he said hed have one or two from on board I wore that frock from the B Marche paris and the coral necklace the straits shining I could see over to Morocco almost the bay of Tangier white and the Atlas mountain with snow on it and the straits like a river so clear Harry Molly darling I was thinking of him on the sea all the time after at mass when my petticoat began to ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... think nature had meant her to be "intellectual;" but what can a poor thing do, whose husband has died of drink when her baby is hardly six months old, and who finds her coral necklace and her grandfather's edition of the British Dramatists inadequate to the ...
— The Greater Inclination • Edith Wharton

... "Oh," said the Coral Necklace, "the Herr Oberleutnant has asked me to go with him to Landsdorf. He must buy some eggs there to take home to his mother. He saves a penny on eight eggs by knowing the ...
— In a German Pension • Katherine Mansfield

... the next morning, Polly found by her bedside, when she woke up, a pretty little coral necklace, and a red purse with seventy-five cents in ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow



Words linked to "Coral necklace" :   Illecebrum verticullatum, Illecebrum, herbaceous plant, herb, genus Illecebrum



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