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coral reef

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.

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  • noun A mound or hummock of compacted coral skeletons

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  • noun a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone

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synonyms (49)

Words with the same meaning

  1. ait
  2. archipelago
  3. atoll
  4. bank
  5. bar
  6. bill
  7. breakwater
  8. cape
  9. cay
  10. chersonese
  11. continental island
  12. coral head
  13. coral island
  14. delta
  15. flat
  16. ford
  17. foreland
  18. head
  19. headland
  20. holm
  21. hook
  22. insularity
  23. island
  24. island group
  25. islandology
  26. isle
  27. islet
  28. key
  29. mull
  30. naze
  31. ness
  32. oceanic island
  33. peninsula
  34. point
  35. promontory
  36. reef
  37. sandbank
  38. sandbar
  39. sandspit
  40. shallow
  41. shallows
  42. shelf
  43. shoal
  44. shoal water
  45. spit
  46. spur
  47. tidal flats
  48. tongue
  49. wetlands

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. reef

hyponyms (6)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. Great Barrier Reef
  2. atoll
  3. barrier reef
  4. cay
  5. florida key
  6. key

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