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单词 reef-builder
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reef-builder
reef-builder n. a marine organism (as a coral) which produces calcareous material that accumulates to form reefs.
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1852 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 304 The coral animals, and especially those which are the principal reef-builders, are rarely found alive at a depth greater than from twenty to thirty fathoms.
1911 Amer. Naturalist 45 442 A study of these algæ shows that, as at the present day, they play a by no means unimportant rôle as reef-builders.
2005 Frederick (Maryland) News-Post 23 Mar. b14/1 Elkhorn and staghorn coral..for the past 500,000 years have been the primary reef-builders for Florida and the Caribbean.
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