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Definition of brain coral in English: brain coralnoun A compact coral with a convoluted surface resembling that of the brain. Diploria and other genera, order Scleractinia Example sentencesExamples - You glide over vast hemispheres of brain coral and barrel sponges big enough to sit in; shoals of fish and crabs eye you quizzically.
- We dive straight off the beach and are soon at Heron's famous ‘Bommie’, a 3500 year old, 18 metre high brain coral.
- At Kelliston Drain you can hover over what is claimed to be the biggest brain coral in the world, a green Millennium Dome some 4m across.
- I even saw a small school of chromis at a cleaning station on a green brain coral.
- More than 20 dive sites lie within a 10-minute boat ride of Speyside, including a wreck and a brain coral as big as a bungalow.
- Each type of polyp buds in a different way, leading to a large variety of shapes and sizes of coral colonies ranging from the rippled ball of brain coral to elegant fans, flat discs, graceful branches and columns.
- When I turned back, Jonathan and Phil had moved off into the distance, but Gunnar was still drifting by the bank of brain coral.
- Its velvety, oversized flowers are crinkled, suggesting the wavy surface of brain coral.
- Ageing brain corals, brittle firecorals and delicate seafans are easily dislodged from their anchorages by the fierce breakers.
- You won't see the variety of corals found in the Caribbean, but there are healthy reefs covered in vast brain corals, seafans and sea whips.
- Now it is a barren area of dead brain coral zipped over by jet skis.
- This ruby brittle star sits on a brain coral, its gangly arms ready to reach out and snatch freshly spawned eggs.
- Some are easy to find, but others - like crested cactus, which grows into convoluted mounds resembling brain coral - aren't.
- Snorkelers can find brain coral, sea grasses, sea stars, stingrays, fishes of every color and even sluggish, benign nurse sharks.
- We swam in the cool waters through thousands of shimmering silverlings, counted multicoloured Christmas tree plumes, encountered sea fans, feather dusters, and the islands' oldest brain coral in the crystal-clear waters.
- I say ‘frustratingly nice’ because I am faced with the dilemma of shooting film now on the reef, or saving it for the brain coral.
- Christmas tree worms protruded from a large brain coral in a rainbow of colours.
- I passed over a huge boulder-sized brain coral then came to what seemed at first sight a petrified forest in bright blue - staghorn coral.
- Staghorn coral rises above a tangled matrix of numerous other hard coral species, punctuated by great domes of brain coral.
- Even this close to the shore there are colourful sponges, soft corals, brain corals and boulder corals, forming a playground for goatfish, parrotfish, chromis and wrasse.
Definition of brain coral in US English: brain coralnoun A compact coral with a convoluted surface resembling that of the brain. Diploria and other genera, order Scleractinia Example sentencesExamples - At Kelliston Drain you can hover over what is claimed to be the biggest brain coral in the world, a green Millennium Dome some 4m across.
- I even saw a small school of chromis at a cleaning station on a green brain coral.
- Each type of polyp buds in a different way, leading to a large variety of shapes and sizes of coral colonies ranging from the rippled ball of brain coral to elegant fans, flat discs, graceful branches and columns.
- Christmas tree worms protruded from a large brain coral in a rainbow of colours.
- Even this close to the shore there are colourful sponges, soft corals, brain corals and boulder corals, forming a playground for goatfish, parrotfish, chromis and wrasse.
- Ageing brain corals, brittle firecorals and delicate seafans are easily dislodged from their anchorages by the fierce breakers.
- I passed over a huge boulder-sized brain coral then came to what seemed at first sight a petrified forest in bright blue - staghorn coral.
- Its velvety, oversized flowers are crinkled, suggesting the wavy surface of brain coral.
- I say ‘frustratingly nice’ because I am faced with the dilemma of shooting film now on the reef, or saving it for the brain coral.
- You won't see the variety of corals found in the Caribbean, but there are healthy reefs covered in vast brain corals, seafans and sea whips.
- More than 20 dive sites lie within a 10-minute boat ride of Speyside, including a wreck and a brain coral as big as a bungalow.
- We dive straight off the beach and are soon at Heron's famous ‘Bommie’, a 3500 year old, 18 metre high brain coral.
- When I turned back, Jonathan and Phil had moved off into the distance, but Gunnar was still drifting by the bank of brain coral.
- Now it is a barren area of dead brain coral zipped over by jet skis.
- Staghorn coral rises above a tangled matrix of numerous other hard coral species, punctuated by great domes of brain coral.
- You glide over vast hemispheres of brain coral and barrel sponges big enough to sit in; shoals of fish and crabs eye you quizzically.
- Snorkelers can find brain coral, sea grasses, sea stars, stingrays, fishes of every color and even sluggish, benign nurse sharks.
- We swam in the cool waters through thousands of shimmering silverlings, counted multicoloured Christmas tree plumes, encountered sea fans, feather dusters, and the islands' oldest brain coral in the crystal-clear waters.
- Some are easy to find, but others - like crested cactus, which grows into convoluted mounds resembling brain coral - aren't.
- This ruby brittle star sits on a brain coral, its gangly arms ready to reach out and snatch freshly spawned eggs.
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