fringing reef

fringing reef

English

Noun

fringing reef (plural fringing reefs)

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

Hypernyms

• coral reef

Translations

Translations

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

References

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