an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon
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a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
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a long coral reef near and parallel to the shore
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts, Marine biology.a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts, Marine biology.a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts, Marine biology.the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts, Marine biology.a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts, Marine biology.a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
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Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Marine biology.the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Marine biology.animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae
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Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Marine biology.corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton
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A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlanti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.shrub of southern Florida to West Indies
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Cor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.Having coral; covered with coral.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coral, reef, southern, coast, florida.One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal.
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