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reef

[reef] / rif /
NOUN
underwater or partially submerged ledge
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Example Sentences

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Whatever it is, it’s hovering above the reef break.

From Literature

The clandestine artisanal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have become an entrenched presence in the shantytowns that ring Johannesburg and its satellite settlements along the gold reef.

From Barron's

They include the rainforests of the Amazon and the Congo basin, the boreal forests of Russia and Canada, the coral reefs and mangroves of South East Asia, and the Himalayas.

From BBC

These groups diversified into a wide range of reef fishes, some with alternative mouth structures.

From Science Daily

Thousands of European oysters have been placed on the Belfast Lough seabed, in a bid to bring back native reefs that had almost disappeared.

From BBC