coral reef
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She compares the human body to a coral reef, where animals, plants, and microscopic organisms “cohabitate as one huge and beautiful chimeric metaorganism.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
The Great Barrier Reef, the world's biggest coral reef system on the north-east coast, is rightly recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025
"We can still have fairly healthy corals in the future, but this requires more aggressive reductions in global emissions and strategic approaches to coral reef management"
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2024
A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.
From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024
Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
