The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CORAL
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More clues leading to the result CORAL
- Material in reef, cold on examination
- Run in sort of black and pink
- Pink or black with a dash of red in
- Almost everyone’s after my woman
- Right to stop fossil fuel being pink
- Pink champagne primarily for the mouth!
- C of fossil fuel? That’s about right
- Teething ring for child originally at an early stage of development
- Pink radical wearing black stuff
- Collective group creating an offshore bank?
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What does CORAL mean?
CORAL noun- A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
- A colony of marine polyps.
- A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
- The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
- A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
- Made of coral.
- Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.