Synonyms for coral reef
coral reef

Princeton's WordNet

1. coral reefnoun

   a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone

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1. Daniel Whittle:

   Cuba is considered the crown jewel of the Caribbean, principally because of its incredible coral reef ecosystems, its mangroves, its sea grasses, healthy sharks mean healthy corals. Healthy corals mean healthy sharks.

2. Roger Germann:

   And just think, a solution to the next pandemic or human illness could be discovered from healthy coral reef.

3. Sean Connolly:

   The severity and frequency of these [bleaching] events means slow-growing corals won't have time to come back, if all the coral bleaches and dies, it's no longer a coral reef. The coral skeletons are quickly colonized by algae which turns them dark in color.

4. Luiz Rocha:

   Though the species is quite abundant and therefore not currently at a high risk of overexploitation, it's still unsettling when a fish is already being commercialized before it even has a scientific name, it speaks to how much biodiversity there is still left to be described from coral reef ecosystems.

5. Craig Downs:

   You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef ; let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand.