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atoll
/ˈætɔl/
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What does atoll mean?
noun
- A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈætɔl/
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/ˈætɑl//ˈætoʊl//ˈeɪtɑl//ˈeɪtɔl//əˈtɑl/
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Mounting one or two heavy rollers on the fringe of the atoll, she cleared the flashing reefs.
A few miles north of Keeling there is another small atoll, the lagoon of which is nearly filled up with coral-mud.
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Dependent areas: American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island; Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Wake Island.
The place for the experiment was, with the consent of every member of the Committee, selected by the late Admiral Sir W.J. Wharton--who was not himself an adherent of Darwin's views--and no one has ventured to suggest that his selection, the splendid atoll of Funafuti, was not a most judicious one.
SAIL to the Pacific with some Ancient Mariner, and traverse day by day that silent sea until you reach a region never before furrowed by keel where a tiny island, a mere speck on the vast ocean, has just risen from the depths, a little coral reef capped with green, an atoll, a mimic earth, fringed with life, built up through countless ages by life on the remains of life that has passed away.