fringing reef

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English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

fringing reef

Noun[edit]

fringing reef (plural fringing reefs)

(oceanography) A completely shallow coral reef adjacent to a coast.

Hypernyms[edit]

coral reef

Translations[edit]

Translations

Chinese:
Mandarin: 裙礁 (zh) (qúnjiāo)
Finnish: reunusriutta
French: please add this translation if you can

References[edit]

“ˈfringing, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1898.

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