Sentence example with the word 'atoll'

atoll

ait, bar, continental island, coral island, holm, island, islandology, islet, oceanic island, sandbank

Definition n. an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon

Last update: July 10, 2015


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The flat summit is formed by a succession of limestones - all deposited in shallow water - from the Eocene (or Oligocene) up to recent deposits in the above-mentioned atoll with islands on its reef.   [Please select]

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Give Darwin's theory regarding the way a coral atoll may have been formed.   [Please select]

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Still another variety of reef is known as the "atoll" or "lagoon" reef.   [Please select]

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Their savage hearts were ever in their own atoll, the home to which the native clings so passionately, and their eyes were dark with hopeless longing.   [Please select]

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