Usually means: Underwater structure parallel to coastline.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. barrier reef: Merriam-Webster
  2. barrier reef: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barrier reef: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barrier reef: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barrier reef: Vocabulary.com
  6. barrier reef: Wordnik
  7. barrier reef: Wiktionary
  8. barrier reef: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. barrier reef: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. barrier reef: Dictionary.com
  11. Barrier Reef (TV series), Barrier reef: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. barrier reef: Rhymezone
  13. barrier reef: FreeDictionary.org
  14. barrier reef: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. barrier reef: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. barrier reef: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barrier reef: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Barrier reef: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (barrier reef)

noun:  A reef separated from the adjacent coast by a channel or lagoon; a reef that forms a barrier between the open ocean and the waters of the shoreline.

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