coral

Converse of object

• fossilize: Structurally different from Pitcairn, which towered from the sea, Henderson is a flat atoll made of fossilized coral.
• sponge: It is an ideal food for all filter feeders such as Fan worms, sponges soft corals and many more.

Adjective modifier

• gorgonian: Some of the huge gorgonian fan corals are more than 3m high.
• soft: There were also a myriad of soft corals of all colors from red to yellow to purple.
• deep-water: Deep-water corals such as Lophelia pertusa live in the cold, dark waters of the Atlantic, the Darwin Mounds are 1,000 meters down.
• stony: In addition to encouraging unwanted algae growth, phosphates slow the skeletal growth of stony corals.
• pristine: What you will not find here are pristine corals.
• colorful: Crystal clear waters, colorful coral and tropical fish abound and combine to make for an interesting day at the beach.

Modifies a noun

• reef: Compared with coral reefs, vast swathes of the ocean appeared to be devoid of life.
• atoll: We went on Captain Cook Tours trip to a coral atoll.
• cay: North West Island - the largest coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef, covering an area of 91 hectares.
• polyp: The hard skeleton of coral is built by a community of animals related to jellyfish, coral polyps.
• calcium: But coral calcium contains high levels of alkaline minerals which help to promote a more alkaline state.
• bommies: The Aquarium A gentle drift dive past lots of coral bommies, with plenty of fish life around the cleaning station.

Noun used with modifier

• cold-water: They are often seen in and around the deep, cold-water coral reefs west of Norway and Britain.
• staghorn: At about 7 meters the reef appeared colorful with large fields of staghorn corals.
• reef-building: Their main research interests are color vision and color perception in marine animals and stress in reef-building corals due to climate change respectively.
• deep-sea: Deep-sea corals, including Lophelia, are already covered by the European Union's habitat directive which applies to the uk 200-mile limit.
• sunset: Current status The sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti occurs in groups of a few tens to several hundred individuals.
• whip: A little deeper there is a forest of whip coral covering 30 or more square meters of the hard coral bed.