(n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
(n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.
(n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(2) What are the major threats that face the world's coral reefs and what more needs to be done to protect them?
(3) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Table corals provide an excellent hiding place for smaller fish.
(5) But the Guardian can now reveal Australia will also need to report on how it is dealing with the current bleaching, where almost a quarter of the coral on the reef has been killed.
(6) Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, a Griffith University associate professor, said the research was “a major step forward in understanding how seaweeds can harm corals and has important implications for comprehending the consequences of increased carbon dioxide emissions on the health of the Great Barrier Reef”.
(7) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(8) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(9) Warming water will make it hard for many of the reef’s corals to survive, while the acidification of the oceans will hinder the ability of remaining corals to form their skeletons.
(10) Tyr190 may react with the coral toxin by nucleophilic addition at one of the carbons associated with an epoxide, and may form part of the alkylammonium-binding subsite of the acetylcholine recognition site.
(11) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
(12) This process hinders the ability of corals to produce the skeletal building blocks of reefs.
(13) We’re currently due to fly back on Friday afternoon and were not too concerned about it just yet.” Mohammed Sami, general manager of the Coral Sea Sensatori, one of Sharm el-Sheikh’s largest resorts, said the move had created uncertainty for holidaymakers.
(14) Incidentally, it’s the algae that give the coral its colour; and so when it’s ejected, the coral takes on a ghostly white hue, giving rise to the term “bleaching”.
(15) So are you optimistic then about the future survival of the world's coral reefs in the long term?
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
(17) So we looked at the economic contribution of tourists to that area and compared it with the cost of interventions to improve water quality and coral reef health in that area.
(18) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(19) It was the fourth mass bleaching to hit the reef in recorded history – all since 1998 – and coral scientists are alarmed the increasing regularity of these events gives stressed coral precious little chance to recover.
(20) In areas near the loaders, enough has accumulated to have a toxic effect on the corals that grow there.
Tabula
Definition:
(n.) A table; a tablet.
(n.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is the tabula rasa on to which the "anyone but Zuma" campaign can project their hopes and, perhaps, wishful thinking.
(2) Again, this is the 'tabula rasa' aspect of the 2008 election.
(3) A conditional analysis of psychotic disturbances must be based on the concept that the individual's psyche, in both spheres, is not a 'tabula rasa' (Locke), but always conveys a selection of that which has been offered in the situation (Leibniz).
(4) European engineers were sent in flocks to the US to learn from the environments in which these revolutionary ideas were playing out, returning with tabula rasa development plans to realise their own modernist dreams.
(5) The article presented here demonstrates structure findings (calvarial thickness; relation between tabula externa, tabula interna, and diploe [in terms of the percentage of the whole section examined], porosity of the diploe [including the mean width of its cavities]; degree of obliteration of the sagittal suture) of a strictly defined skeletal segment in special regard to the expected variability.
(6) Your Tory Party Chairman Name should be a tabula rasa for public trust.
(7) As was common at that time, the text plagiarized a portion of Vesalius' Tabulae sex, which resulted in the famous anatomist's anger.
(8) Reviewing the anglo-american literature and our own research it is argued that infants cannot be viewed as "tabula rasa".
(9) This study also formed the basis for the chapters on cyclopia in his Handbook of pathological anatomy (1842-1844) and his Tabulae ad illustrandam embryogenesin hominis et mammalium (1844-1849).
(10) He prefers to be the empty vessel in this three-way relationship, a tabula rasa giving nothing away, a disinterested party to the exchange, a mere catalyst, a service-provider, a set of skills for rent: at the basic level, he considers himself not to be involved.
(11) Forget tabula rasa regeneration, slow and steady wins the race.
(12) The nervous system of dark-reared chicks is not a tabula rasa, as chicks have predispositions to approach some stimuli rather than others.
(13) But such a site would have necessitated the intelligence of adaptive reuse and careful planning, of a kind clearly at odds with the tabula rasa predilections of the Expo juggernaut.
(14) "Obama's great strength on the campaign trail was that he was 'tabula rasa' [a blank slate].
(15) This potential for sudden destruction highlights one of the most powerful aspects of fire and cities: the ability to create a tabula rasa , to wipe clear the entire history of a place.
(16) Fairhead had come to the committee an unknown quantity and she left it a tabula rasa on to which the committee would tomorrow place a big tick.
(17) A conditional analysis of psychotic disturbances has to proceed from a conception that the individual's psyche in both spheres, is not a "tabula rasa" (Locke), but always already conveys a selection of that which has been offered in the situation (Leibniz).
(18) And as we've always wanted to make a garden we'll now have a tabula rasa of a third of an acre of what is now just grass."
(19) Real differences were not to be found, but there are to be derived possible tendencies of development for the calvarial thickness, for the relation between the compact bone (tabula externa, tabula interna) and the porous bone (diploë), of the porosity in the diploë and the obliteration of the suture in the course of increasing age.