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CORAL REEF
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("coral reef" is a kind of...):
reef (a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coral reef"):
atoll (an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon)
barrier reef (a long coral reef near and parallel to the shore)
cay; Florida key; key (a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida)
Instance hyponyms:
Great Barrier Reef (the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia)
