Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . tant parts on thestage of the Theatre Frangais. He haswritten monologues, including TheHorse, The Art of Monologue (withthe elder Coquelin), etc. He died , 1909. COQUILLA NUT, the seed of thepiassava or piacaba palm, one of thecocoanut group, a native of Brazil. Thenuts are 3 or 4 inches long, oval, of arich brown color and very hard, and areused in turnery for making umbrellahandles, etc. COQUIMBO, also called La Serena,capital of the Chilean province of thesame name;
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . tant parts on thestage of the Theatre Frangais. He haswritten monologues, including TheHorse, The Art of Monologue (withthe elder Coquelin), etc. He died , 1909. COQUILLA NUT, the seed of thepiassava or piacaba palm, one of thecocoanut group, a native of Brazil. Thenuts are 3 or 4 inches long, oval, of arich brown color and very hard, and areused in turnery for making umbrellahandles, etc. COQUIMBO, also called La Serena,capital of the Chilean province of thesame name; near the mouth of the riverCoquimbo, on three terraces. It is ahandsome town, with a new cathedral,seminary, lyceum, and hospital. Theport of Coquimbo is on a bay. It ex-ports copper, silver, and manganese ores,wool, cattle, hay, and cobalt. The prov-ince of Coquimbo occupies the entirebreadth of uie country from the sea tothe Andes, Its area is 13,457 squaremiles; pop., province, about 200,000;town, about 13,000. In the S. somefarming is carried on. The main occu-pation is mining of copper, as also silverand STAR CORAL—REEF CORAL TYPE IN LIVINGCONDITION CORAL, the name applied to the cal-careous stony structures secreted by CORAL 148 CORAL many of the actinozoa, which form oneof the divisions of the coelenteratezoophytes, and also applied to the ani-mals themselves. Two kinds of coralsare distinguished by naturalists, sclero-dermic and sclerobasic, or those in whichthe calcareous skeleton is developed in thewalls of the body, as in the reef-buildingcorals, and those in which (as in the redcoral of commerce) the skeleton is ex-ternal or cuticular. Reproduction takesplace by ova, but chiefly by budding, thenew individual remaining in organicunion with the old. The coral massesgrow not merely by the multiplication ofindividuals, but by the increase in heightof each of the latter, which, as they grow,become divided transversely by parti-tions. The animal, distended with
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