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Atoll   Listen
noun
Atoll  n.  A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.






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"Atoll" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the scar, bowing. "Funny case, wasn't it? Here was me, making a little fortune on that island, doing nothing for it neither, and them quite unable to give me notice. It often used to amuse me thinking over it while I was there. I did calculations of it—big—all over the blessed atoll in ornamental figuring." ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... and begin rebuilding: patient, indefatigable, anonymous as the coral insects at work on a Pacific atoll-building, building, until on the near side of the gulf we call the Dark Age, islets of scholarship lift themselves above the waters: mere specks at first, but ridges appear and connect them: and, to first seeming, ...
— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Atoll" :   Eniwetok, coral reef, Kwajalein, Midway Islands



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