Synonyms for barrier reef
bar·ri·er reef

Princeton's WordNet

1. barrier reefnoun

   a long coral reef near and parallel to the shore

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1. • Coral Reef

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1. Sean Connolly:

   Coral cover [on the Great Barrier Reef] has halved over the last 27 years.

2. Guillermo Blanc:

   It's like putting an oil rig in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef, it's insane.

3. Bob Katter:

   Mr Katter hit out at both the Liberal National and Labor parties. You destroyed the timber industry, the tobacco industry, the fishing industry, the dairy industry and half the sugar mills,he said. We can't farm here because of the Great Barrier Reef. Out west we can't shoot pigs because guns are bad. You can't remove trees, can't use the water out west, can't use the land or improve it. We're not standing still. We're not going forward, so we must be going backwards.

4. Sean Ryan:

   Our question is has the Environment Minister properly applied this legal obligation when considering the impacts of burning coal from this mine on the Great Barrier Reef?

5. Vincent Van Gogh:

   It's the smaller galleries that feed the mid-tier galleries that feed the larger galleries, and we all have to be respectful of that process because otherwise it's like watching the Great Barrier Reef die, we're all part of a much larger ecosystem.