See also:

• ATOLL (native name atollon in the Maldive Islands)

ATOLL (native name atollon in the Maldive Islands)  , a See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse-See also:

• SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe or See also:

• RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring shaped See also:

• CORAL

coral See also:

• REEF (1)

reef enclosing a See also:

• LAGOON (Fr. lagune, Lat. lacuna, a pool)

lagoon . The usual shape is that of a partly submerged dish with a broken edge, forming the ring of islands, See also:

• STANDING

standing upon a conical See also:

• PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

pedestal: The dish is formed of coral See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock and the shells of various reef-dwelling See also:

• MOLLUSCA

mollusca, covered, especially at the seaward edges, with a film of living coral polyps that continually extend the fringe, and enlarge the See also:

• DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter of the See also:

• ATOLL (native name atollon in the Maldive Islands)

atoll . The lagoon tends to deepen when the See also:

• LAND

land is stationary by the See also:

• DEATH

death of the coral animals in the still See also:

• WATER

water, and the patchy disintegration of the " hard " coral, while waves and storms See also:

• TEAR

tear off blocks of rock and See also:

• PILE

pile them up at the margin, increasing the height of the islands, which become covered by vegetation . The lagoon entrance in the open See also:

• PART

part of the horse-shoe is always to leeward of prevailing winds, since the coral growth is there slower than where the waves constantly renew the polyps' See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply . The conical pedestal rising from the depths is frequently a submarine volcanic See also:

• CONE (Gr. Kwvos)

cone or See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, though any submerged See also:

• PEAK, THE

peak may be crowned by See also:

• ART

art atoll .