The berries are bright coral-red, and about the size of a date stone. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
West Africa coral-red, to reddish brown, darkening whitish to cream-coloured. From Wordnik.com. [1. Wood] Reference
The color of the spines in the last three stages is coral-red, yellowish, or black. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Other larvæ in fourth stage, velvety black, with coral-red spines; others with black spines. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Her mouth was the ring of Solomon, her lips coral-red, and her teeth like a line of strung pearls or of camomile petals. From Wordnik.com. [Firas Al-Atraqchi: Egypt: Group seeks to ban A Thousand and One Arabian Nights] Reference
The pods of this variety are quite small, cone-shaped, coral-red when ripe, intensely acrid, and furnish the Cayenne Pepper of commerce. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The process was, however, five lines long, and much narrowed below, besides which, though it was pale green above, the base was coral-red, like the tomato itself. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Santa Prisca on the Aventine is supported by one column of Breccia corallina of remarkably fine quality, in which the fragments are white on a ground of light coral-red. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
When in perfection, the plants are very ornamental; the glossy, coral-red of the numerous pods presenting a fine contrast with the deep-green foliage by which they are surrounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Cameron Diaz pairs coral-red lipstick with rosy cheeks and fresh skin. From Wordnik.com. [Stylelist Feeds] Reference
Feet coral-red, very small and weak, the front toes webbed like a Gull's. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
It looked a little coral in the tube but went on a surprising coral-red tone. From Wordnik.com. [My Women Stuff] Reference
Bill coral-red with a black tip, slender and very sharp, without any hook at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
But her most striking feature was her mouth -- a sudden dash of violent coral-red in the opalescent white of her face. From Wordnik.com. [The Malady of the Century] Reference
Thickets of wild roses showed here and there a late blossom, and other thickets of alders glittered with coral-red berries. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Country Girl] Reference
Male: splendid cardinal-red, with a black throat and band about the coral-red bill, and a fine long crest, like a Cedar Waxwing's. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
These birds are often gaily coloured; some have coral-red bills; the sexes are exactly alike, and the nest is in a hole in sloping ground. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
Some of these have already disappeared, and in their stead are seen the coral-red seed-cones, scarce less ornamental than the flowers themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference
Her Creole complexion was in harmony with the great almond-shaped eyes, the Minerva forehead, Grecian nose, and shell-shaped mouth with its coral-red lips. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Dumany's Wife] Reference
The snakebark maple has a coral-red bark when young, but as it matures, smoothes and greens, it develops delicate white fissures, making it look rather reptilian. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
One of them wore a high helmet of puma-skin, with the tail hanging down his backhandsome head-gear, which he gladly bartered for several strings of bright coral-red beads. From Wordnik.com. [VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land] Reference
One of them wore a high helmet of puma-skin, with the tail hanging down his back -- handsome head-gear, which he gladly bartered for several strings of bright coral-red beads. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
At the old farm we called the vivid green creeping vine that bears those coral-red berries in November, "partridge berry," because partridge feed on the berries and dig them from under the snow. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
It has a large ovate abdomen of olive-green bespangled with golden dust; black thorax, with coral-red mandibles; and long, slender legs, glossy black, and tricked out at the joints with golden touches. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
I threaded my way between these towards some ivy-draped fragments of an ancient priory upon a mass of rock much overgrown with brambles glistening with blackberries and briars decked with coral-red hips. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
The eldest daughter, Eulodia, was about fifteen as I first remember her, a tall slim handsome girl with blue-black hair, black eyes, coral-red lips, and a remarkably white skin without a trace of red colour in it. From Wordnik.com. [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference
Here’s one place you can skip: a new view of the Pinwheel Galaxy, aka Messier 101, in infrared light shows a coral-red outer ring devoid of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. From Wordnik.com. [Space Diary: Life beyond Earth] Reference
With its coral-red stalks and snowy flowers it has a very pretty appearance growing, and is the first care of the Breton farmer — “Ah! que la sombre nue aux funestes lueurs. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
High was his comb, and coral-red withal. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
At maturity, the fruit is a brilliant coral-red. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Green-emerald blended with the coral-red. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
Indian's berry, -- the salmon-colored raspberry, and the coral-red huckleberry. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
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