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ATOLL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("atoll" is a kind of...):
coral reef (a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone)
Instance hyponyms:
Bikini (an atoll in the Marshall Islands; formerly used by the United States as a site for testing nuclear weapons)
Eniwetok (an atoll in the Marshall Islands; site of an amphibious assault in World War II; later used temporarily by the United States to test atomic bombs)
Kwajalein (an atoll in the western Marshall Islands that was used as a Japanese air and naval base during World War II)
Midway Islands (an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base)
