barrier reefs
barrier reefs is the plural of barrier reef.
Meaning of barrier reef
Noun
barrier reef (plural barrier reefs)
- A reef separated from the adjacent coast by a channel or lagoon; a reef that forms a barrier between the open ocean and the waters of the shoreline.
- This was the first example I had met with of a true barrier reef due to subsidence, as has been so clearly shown by Mr. Darwin. In a sheltered archipelago they will seldom be distinguishable, from the absence of those huge rolling waves and breakers which in the wide ocean throw up a barrier of...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 99
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- Barrier reefs is the plural of barrier reef.
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