brain coral
noun
: a massive reef-building coral (such as genus Diploria) having the surface covered by ridges and furrows
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What are brain corals? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
While even dying staghorn corals can poke up from reefs like deer antlers from heather, other species, such as brain corals, may protrude less than an inch.
—airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
The grooved brain coral – Diploria labyrinthiformis – is found across the Caribbean and the Pacific.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Over several evenings, more than 75% of the Center's brain coral colonies reproduced, creating nearly a half-million larvae.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
Altogether 37 colonies of elkhorn and brain coral made the journey.
—Jenny Staletovich, NPR, 22 June 2024
Three species of sea turtles nest at the park, brain coral abound, and both endangered brown pelicans and threatened least terns call it home.
—Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
Thickets of wild elkhorn and mounds of brain coral were bleached or already dead.
—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
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Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
While even dying staghorn corals can poke up from reefs like deer antlers from heather, other species, such as brain corals, may protrude less than an inch.
—airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
The grooved brain coral – Diploria labyrinthiformis – is found across the Caribbean and the Pacific.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Over several evenings, more than 75% of the Center's brain coral colonies reproduced, creating nearly a half-million larvae.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
Altogether 37 colonies of elkhorn and brain coral made the journey.
—Jenny Staletovich, NPR, 22 June 2024
Three species of sea turtles nest at the park, brain coral abound, and both endangered brown pelicans and threatened least terns call it home.
—Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
Thickets of wild elkhorn and mounds of brain coral were bleached or already dead.
—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
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“Brain coral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brain%20coral. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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