brain coral
noun
: a massive reef-building coral (such as genus Diploria) having the surface covered by ridges and furrows
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Thickets of wild elkhorn and mounds of brain coral were bleached or already dead.
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Catrin Einhorn Jason Gulley, New York Times, 31 July 2023
The Maldives: Modeling a city on a brain coral Few countries are more at risk from the climate crisis than the Maldives.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
The skeleton design takes inspiration from nature: Many species such as brain corals grow in a dome shape, while branching or plate corals grow upward from a solid base.
—WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
On the reef, Chamberland finishes her inspection of the brain coral and leaves the butterflyfish to their vigil.
—Michelle Nijhuis, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
The staghorn, elkhorn and brain coral living in Government Cut provide a real-world example of how coral communities can adapt to such things as rising heat and polluted runoff, even in such an unlikely setting as the port of Miami.
—Curt Anderson and Cody Jackson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2022
They'll all be interspersed as a mass of modular floating platforms in the pattern of a brain coral.
—Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
Designed in a pattern similar to brain coral, the city will consist of 5,000 floating units including houses, restaurants, shops and schools, with canals running in between.
—CNN, 19 June 2022
Coral Morphologic sells a line of surf and swimwear that takes designs from flower anemones and brain coral and uses environmentally sustainable materials such as a type of nylon recycled from old fishing nets.
—Curt Anderson and Cody Jackson, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
Catrin Einhorn Jason Gulley, New York Times, 31 July 2023
The Maldives: Modeling a city on a brain coral Few countries are more at risk from the climate crisis than the Maldives.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
The skeleton design takes inspiration from nature: Many species such as brain corals grow in a dome shape, while branching or plate corals grow upward from a solid base.
—WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
On the reef, Chamberland finishes her inspection of the brain coral and leaves the butterflyfish to their vigil.
—Michelle Nijhuis, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
The staghorn, elkhorn and brain coral living in Government Cut provide a real-world example of how coral communities can adapt to such things as rising heat and polluted runoff, even in such an unlikely setting as the port of Miami.
—Curt Anderson and Cody Jackson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2022
They'll all be interspersed as a mass of modular floating platforms in the pattern of a brain coral.
—Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
Designed in a pattern similar to brain coral, the city will consist of 5,000 floating units including houses, restaurants, shops and schools, with canals running in between.
—CNN, 19 June 2022
Coral Morphologic sells a line of surf and swimwear that takes designs from flower anemones and brain coral and uses environmentally sustainable materials such as a type of nylon recycled from old fishing nets.
—Curt Anderson and Cody Jackson, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
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