barrier reef

English

Noun

barrier reef (plural barrier reefs)

1. A reef separated from the adjacent coast by a channel or lagoon.

Translations

reef separated from the adjacent coast

• Catalan: escull barrera m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 堡礁 (zh) (bǎojiāo)

• Danish: barriererev n
• Finnish: valliriutta
• German: Barriereriff n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barriererev n

  Nynorsk: barriererev n

• Polish: rafa barierowa f
• Swedish: barriärrev n