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soft coral

n.
Any of various anthozoans of the subclass Octocorallia, such as the sea fans, that have polyps with eight feathery tentacles and typically a flexible skeleton.
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The 'wall' [dive site], a drop off point near the coast of Tagabebe village is adorned with barrel sponges, soft coral and gorgonian fans.
Sisley L'Orchidee Coral Highlighting Blush PS74 ADMITTEDLY, this orchid-inspired palette is almost too beautiful to disturb with a blusher brush, but it's worth it for the stunningly luminescent soft coral shade.
"In total, the reefs of the Red Sea support more than 220 different species of hard and soft coral. Together, these corals provide the basis of an ecosystem that offers both food and shelter to over 1,100 species of fish, almost a fifth of which are found nowhere else on Earth," according to TripSavvy's report.
For a suits-all look, we used a soft coral base (Daybreak) on lids then intensified with a deep copper metallic (Heatwave) over the top and on the lower lash line.
For a suits-all look, we used the soft coral base (Daybreak) on lids, then intensified with the deep copper metallic (Heatwave) over the top and on the lower lash line.
The ministry said, over the past year, it has removed artificial reefs, transferred and cultivated of 14,000 square metres of seaweed and 11,595 units of natural coral hard, and 500 units of soft coral reefs, as well as the transferred and re-cultivated more than 31,600 trees of mangroves in the coastal areas.
One thing you won't find in such a foliage-forward design: plentiful pops of color, though Grubb's first Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream' in the front yard recently bloomed with a soft coral flower.
variety of hard and soft coral reefs, sharks and green turtles, as well as
Allelopathy is likely the means by which the soft coral Xenia puertogalerae [3] and the scleractinian coral Porites cylindrica [4] established dominance and developed monospecific stands in some Philippine reefs.
His hair, dyed green, stood up in polyps like a soft coral reef.
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