† 1. A coral of plant-like form. Obs.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), VIII. 193. The coral-plants, as they are called, sometimes shoot out like trees without leaves in winter; they often spread out a broad surface like a fan, and not uncommonly a large bundling head, like a faggot.
2. A name of the plant Jatropha multifida (N. O. Euphorbiaceæ). (Miller, Plant-names, 1884.)
1813. W. Ainslie, Mat. Med. Hindostan, 73. That species of Jatropha, called by the English the Coral plant … (Jatropha Multifida) is cultivated in many … gardens.
