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Meanings of atoll in English
Ring-shaped coral reef, generally formed over a former oceanic volcan, frequently with small emerging islands (motus) over the rim, often enclosing a central lagoon possibly still containing one or a few emerging elevated islands.
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Examples for "coral atoll"
Examples for "coral atoll"
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Millennium lagoon provides an excellent reference of a relatively undisturbed coral atoll.
2
The population decline on Niue, a lush coral atoll, has been steady and relentless.
3
A coral atoll is the crest of a dying volcano.
4
Fiji has also offered to help other Pacific islanders on low-lying island coral atoll nations.
5
These islands have dramatic mountain backdrops, rather than the flat, coral atoll look of Nananu-i-Ra.
Usage of atoll in English
1
When you come here you see the highest point on the atoll.
2
Nearly 60 years after the last test, the atoll is still uninhabitable.
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The reef must be a drowned atoll, perhaps surrounding a former island.
4
I did calculations of it-big-alloverthe blessed atoll in ornamental figuring.
5
As development activities expanded on Namdrik, numerous donors partnered with the atoll.
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Millennium lagoon provides an excellent reference of a relatively undisturbed coral atoll.
7
The ship spent time off the uninhabited French Polynesian atoll of Mururoa.
8
Tokelau's first airstrip will be built on the central atoll of Nukunonu.
9
Even as Captain Lynch spoke, a great watery mass smote the atoll.
10
Hosking was on a beach on Midway island, a remote Hawaiian atoll.
11
Even a less militant vegetarian is unlikely to survive on an atoll.
12
What could possibly sustain such a massive number on this barren atoll?
13
The capital atoll Tarawa is overcrowded and underdeveloped, even compared to Majuro.
14
In answer, another rumbling crash shook the atoll and the house.
15
Here was certainly an atoll; and we were certainly got among the archipelago.
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Quotes the General's description of the atoll as it is today.
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Atoll across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Rare
United Kingdom
Rare