GREAT BARRIER REEF

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

coral reef (a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone)

Holonyms ("Great Barrier Reef" is a part of...):

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)

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