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Red baneberry
The Red baneberry is a flowering plant of northern and western America. The western form is ssp. arguta, and the northern form is ssp. rubra. It is herbaceous and turnately branched.
Leaves have coarsely toothed and deeply lobed margins. An individual will have either three branches, or three branches and one fruiting stalk, all coming from one point on the main central stem.
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Red bat
The Eastern Red Bat is a species of bat from the Vespertilionidae family. See also the Western Red Bat, a related species.
Eastern red bats are widespread across eastern North America, with additional records in Bermuda. This is a medium-sized Vespertilionid, averaging weights of 9.5-16 g and measurements of 112.3 mm in total length.
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Red blood cell
Red blood cells are the most common type of blood cell and are the vertebrate body's principal means of delivering oxygen from the lungs or gills to body tissues via the blood.
Red blood cells are also known as RBCs or erythrocytes . A schistocyte is a red blood cell undergoing fragmentation, or a fragmented part of a red blood cell.
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Red Brigades
The Red Brigades are a militant leftism group located in Italy. Formed in 1970, the Marxist Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance. In 1978, they kidnapped and killed former
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Red Buckeye
Red Buckeye, is a small deciduous tree or shrub native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States, found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south.
It has a number of local names, such as scarlet buckeye, woolly buckeye and firecracker plant.
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Red Cabbage
The Red Cabbage is a sort of cabbage, also known as Red Kraut or Blue Kraut after preparation.
Its leaves are coloured dark mauve. However, the plant changes its colour according to the pH of the soil. On acidic soils, the
leaves grow more reddish while an alkaline soil will produce rather blue coloured cabbages.
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Red Campion
Red campion is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native throughout central, western and northern Europe, and locally in southern Europe.
It is a herbaceous biennial plant or perennial plant, with dark pink to red flowers, each 1.8-2.5 cm across.
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Red Carpet
Red Carpet is a software management tool for Linux that was developed as part of the Ximian desktop. Ximian and therefore Red Carpet is now owned by Novell, Inc..
Red Carpet supports most of the popular Linux distribution and maintains their software installation through the RPM Package Manager packages database.
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Red Cloud
Red Cloud, was a war leader of the Oglala Sioux Lakota. One of the most capable enemies the United States military ever faced, he led the successful war in 1866–1868 against the United States over control of the Powder River Country in northwestern Wyoming and southern Montana.
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Red clover
Red Clover is a species of clover, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa.
It is a herbaceous perennial plant, very variable in size, growing to 20-80 cm tall. The leaf are trifoliate, each leaflet 15-30 mm long and 8-15 mm broad, green with a characteristic pale crescent in the outer half of the leaf; the petiole is 1-4 cm long, with two basal stipules.
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Red Deer
Red Deer, known as elk or wapiti in North America, are the second largest species of deer in the world, after moose.
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Red Delicious
The Red Delicious is a cultivar of apple. It is the most widely grown apple in the world, red with darker red streaks, and five "points" on the bottom.
The Red Delicious, like many other fruit cultivars, was a chance seedling. The legend is that a hardy seedling was found in 1868 by one Jesse Hiatt, an apple grower outside Peru, Iowa, USA.
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Red Devil
Red Devil or Bulgeun Akma is the official supporting group for the Korea Republic national football team. Vociferous and dynamic, this group of supporters find their reason of existence in changing the football culture of Korea.
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Red Drum
The red drum, also know as channel bass, redfish, puppy drum or just red, is a game fish that is found from Massachusetts down to Florida and from Florida to Northern Mexico. It is the only species in the genus Sciaenops.
The North Carolina General Assembly of 1971 designated the Red Drum as the official State Salt Water Fish..
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Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf is a United Kingdom science fiction sitcom that ran for eight series, from 1988 to 1999. It was created and originally written by Grant Naylor , and originated from a recurring sketch, Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, in 1980s BBC radio comedy show Son Of Clich, also scripted by Grant and Naylor.
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Red flag
Historically, and most generally, the red flag is an international symbol for the "blood of angry working class."
Although much older than socialism, the flag has mainly been a socialism and communism emblem associated in particular with those ideology' revolutionary left-wing and Radical Left sections.
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Red Fox
The Red Fox is the most familiar of the foxes. In Britain and Ireland, where there are no longer any other native wild canids, it is referred to simply as the "Fox". It has the widest range not just of any fox but of any terrestrial carnivore. As its name suggests, its fur is predominantly reddish-brown, but there is a naturally occurring grey morph, the Silver Fox; a remarkable strain of tame Silver Fox has been produced from these animals by systematic domestication.
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Red giant
According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red giant is a large non-main sequence star of stellar classification K or M; so-named because of the reddish appearance of the cooler giant stars. Examples include Aldebaran, in the constellation Taurus and Arcturus.
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Red Ginger
Red Ginger, also called Ostrich Plume and Pink Cone Ginger, are native Malaysian plants with showy flowers on long brightly colored red bracts. They look like the bloom, but the true flower is the small white flower on top.
Its two Variety are called Jungle King and Jungle Queen.
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Red Heat
Red Heat is a 1988 Action film/comedy in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Soviet policeman Ivan Danko. His United States partner is played by James Belushi. They work together to catch a powerful Soviet drug dealer, Viktor Rostavili.
It was directed by Walter Hill, and written by Hill and Troy Kennedy Martin.
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Red Helleborine
Red Helleborine is a plant in the orchid family.
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Red Light
Red Light is a 1949 crime film, considered film noir, shot on location in California. This unusual revenge film has an overtly religious theme.
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Red Man
Red Man is a leading brand of chewing tobacco in the United States, produced since 1904.. Swedish Match. Retrieved July 15 2006. In contrast to plug or twist chewing tobacco, or the ground tobacco used in snuff, Red Man is a leaf tobacco. It is made by the Pinkerton Tobacco company of Owensboro, Kentucky.
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Red Maple
Red Maple is also known as Swamp Maple or Soft Maple. It is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America, ranging from Lake of the Woods on the Ontario/Minnesota border, east to Newfoundland, south to near Miami, Florida, Florida, and southwest to east Texas.
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Red Meat
Begun in 1989, Max Cannon's Red Meat is a popular independent comic strip. It appears in over 75 alternative weeklies and college papers in the United States and in other countries. As of 1996, it has been available for reading on the web.
Bizarre, often tasteless, twisted, cheerfully dark, but funny, the strip features a cast of characters who are at times lovable, at times repulsive, with personalities firmly set at an oblique angle to the canons of normality.
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Red Mulberry
The Red Mulberry is a species of mulberry, native to Eastern United States North America, from southernmost Ontario and Vermont south to Florida and west to southeast South Dakota and central Texas. Red Mulberry is listed as an endangered species in Canada.
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Red onion
Red onions are cultivars of the onion with purplish red skin and white flesh tinged with red. They are sometimes referred to as Spanish Onions.
These onions tend to be medium to large in size and have a mild to sweet flavor. They are often consumed raw, added for color to salads, and grilled or lightly cooked with other foods.
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Red Osier Dogwood
The Red Osier Dogwood is a species of dogwood native throughout northern and western North America from Alaska east to Newfoundland, south to Durango and Nuevo León in the west, and Illinois and Virginia in the east. Other names include Redtwig Dogwood, American Dogwood, and Western Dogwood.
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Red Panda
The Red Panda also known as the Lesser Panda, Wah, Bear Cat or Firefox, is a mostly herbivorous mammal, slightly larger than a domestic cat . The Red Panda has semi-retractile claws and, like the Giant panda, has a "false thumb" which is really an extension of the sesamoid bone.
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Red Phalarope
The Red Phalarope, Phalaropus fulicaria, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is bird migration, and, unusually for a wader, migrating mainly on oceanic routes and wintering at sea on tropical oceans.
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Red Pine
The Red Pine is a pine native to northeastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to southeast Manitoba, and south to northern Illinois and Pennsylvania, with a small outlying population in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia.
It is an evergreen tree characterized by tall, straight growth in a variety of habitats.
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Red sandalwood
The famous red sandalwood is yielded by Pterocarpus santalinus.
* As a timber it is equal to the finest of rosewoods and is found in classic Chinese furniture.
* It is -listed.
* Its prime use is a dye, used by women in India.
* It is also used in the construction of the erhu, a Chinese bowed string instrument
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Red Scare
The term "Red Scare" has been retroactively applied to two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s.
These periods were characterized by heightened suspicion of communists, the fear of widespread infiltration of Communism in Federal Government of the United States and the fear of communist infiltration into U.S.
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Red Sea
The Red Sea is an inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden. In the north is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez . The sea is roughly 1,200 miles long and at its widest is over 190 miles .
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Red Setter
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Red Spruce
Red Spruce is a spruce tree native to eastern North America. Specifically, its habitat ranges from eastern Quebec to Nova Scotia, and from New England south in the Adirondack Mountains and Appalachians to western North Carolina. It grows from 18-30 m high and has a trunk diameter of about 60 cm, though exceptional specimens can reach 46 m tall and 130 cm diameter.
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Red Squirrel
The red squirrel, is a species of tree squirrels. Red squirrel are tree-dwelling omnivore rodents that are frequently found throughout Eurasia. In Britain, however, numbers have decreased drastically due to the introduction of the Eastern Gray Squirrel from North America.
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Red Tape
Red Tape is an album by United States southern rock band Atlanta Rhythm Section, released in 1976..
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Red tide
Red tide is an estuarine or marine algal bloom and is caused by a species of dinoflagellates, often present in sufficient numbers to turn the water red or brown. The species responsible for red tides on the gulf coast of Florida is a dinoflagellate called Karenia brevis It produces brevetoxins which produce respiratory irritation in humans.
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Red Valerian
Red Valerian is a popular gardening flower with a number of other names, including Spur Valerian, Red Spur Valerian, Jupiter's Beard and others. It is also quite often referred to simply as "Valerian", but this usage is better avoided, because it perpetuates the longstanding confusion between Red Valerian and the related Valerian Valeriana officinalis.
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Red Wolf
The Red Wolf is the rarest and most endangered of all Canis. It is thought that its original distribution included much of eastern North America, where Red Wolves were found from Pennsylvania in the east, Florida in the south, and Texas in the west. On the basis of further study, its historic range is now thought to have extended further north into the northeastern USA and extreme eastern Canada.
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Red-breasted Merganser
The Red-breasted Merganser is a duck.
Its breeding habitat is freshwater lakes and rivers across northern North America, Greenland, Europe and Asia. It nests in sheltered locations on the ground near water. It is bird migration and many northern breeders winter in coastal waters further south.
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Red-breasted Nuthatch
The Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, is a small songbird.
Adults have blue-grey upperparts with reddish underparts; they have a white face with a black stripe through the eyes, a white throat, a straight grey bill and a black crown. This bird is smaller than the White-breasted Nuthatch.
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Red-breasted Sapsucker
The Red-breasted Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus ruber, is a medium-sized woodpecker.
Adults have a red head and upper chest; they have a white lower belly and rump. They are black on the back and wings with bars; they have a large white wing patch. Northern birds, S. r. ruber, have yellow bars on the back and yellow upper belly.
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Red-eyed Vireo
The Red-eyed Vireo, Vireo olivaceus, is a small songbird, 13-14 cm in length.
Adults are mainly olive-green on the upperparts with white underparts; they have red eyes and a grey crown edged with black. There is a dark line through the eyes and a white stripe just over them. They have thick blue-grey legs and a stout bill.
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Red-legged Partridge
The Red-legged Partridge is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is sometimes known as French Partridge, to distinguish it from the Grey or Grey Partridge.
This partridge breeds naturally in south western Europe, in France and Iberian Peninsula.
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Red-light district
A red-light district is a neighborhood where prostitution is a common part of everyday life. The term was first recorded in the United States and derives from the practice of placing a red light in the window to indicate to customers the nature of the business.
Others claim that it comes from the red lanterns carried by railway workers, which were left outside brothels when the workers entered, so that they could be quickly located for any needed train movement.
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Red-necked Grebe
The Red-necked Grebe, Podiceps grisegena, is a member of the grebe family of water birds.
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Red-shouldered Hawk
The Red-shouldered Hawk, Buteo lineatus, is a medium-sized Buzzard.
Adults have a brown head, a reddish breast,long tail and a pale belly with reddish bars. They have a long dark tail with narrow white bars. The red "shoulder" is visible when the bird is perched. Their upperparts are dark with pale spots; they have long yellow legs.
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Red-spotted Purple
The Red-spotted Admiral, White Admiral, Western White Admiral or Red-spotted Purple is a North American brush-footed butterfly, common throughout much of the eastern United States. It is named for the red spots on its underwing. The top of the wings are notable for their iridescent blue markings.
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Red-tailed Hawk
The Red-tailed Hawk is a large Buteo which breeds from western Alaska and northern Canada to Panama and the West Indies. Males are typically smaller than females, generally weighing between 8001100 grams and measuring 4556 cm in length. Females typically average between 11001300 grams and measure 5065 cm in length.
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Red-winged Blackbird
The Red-winged Blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, is a passerine Aves of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras and northwestern Costa Rica.
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Redaction
Redaction generally refers to the editing of text to turn it into a form suitable for publication, or to the result of such an effort.
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Reddish
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RedEye
This is about the Chicago newspaper; for other meanings, see Redeye.
The RedEye is a daily publication put out by the Chicago Tribune geared toward 18 to 34-year-olds. It was created due to the loss of readership among young people of the Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers.
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Redline
Redline refers to the maximum engine speed at which an internal combustion engine and its components are designed to operate without causing damage to the components themselves or other parts of the engine. The redline of an engine depends on various factors such as Stroke, mass of the components, Engine displacement, composition of components, and balance of components.
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Redneck
Redneck, in modern usage, predominantly refers to a particular stereotype of people who may be found in many regions of the United States or Canada. The word can be used either as a pejorative or as a matter of pride, depending on context.
Usage of the term redneck generally differs from hick and hillbilly, because rednecks reject or resist assimilation into the dominant culture, while hicks and hillbillies theoretically are isolated from the dominant culture.
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Redox
Redox reactions include all chemical reaction in which atoms have their oxidation number changed.
This can be a simple redox process, such as the oxidation of carbon to yield carbon dioxide, it could be the reduction of carbon by hydrogen to yield methane , or it could be the oxidation of sugar in the human body, through a series of very complex electron transfer processes.
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Redpoll
The Redpolls are a group of small passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae which have characteristic red markings on their heads. They are very closely related, and taxonomically could be considered as any thing from one to five species. Recent studies tend to support three species.
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Reds
Reds is a 1981 film starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. It centers on the life of John Silas Reed, the Communist, journalism, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution of 1917 in his book Ten Days that Shook the World .
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Redshift
In physics and astronomy, redshift is a phenomenon in which the visible light from an object is shifted towards the red end of the Electromagnetic spectrum. It is an observed increase in the wavelength, which corresponds to a decrease in the frequency of electromagnetic radiation, received by a detector compared to that emission by the source.
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Redstart
Redstarts are a group of small Old World birds. They were formerly classified in the thrush family, but are more often now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher family.
These are insectivorous ground feeding birds, many of which have the red tail. Most northern species are strong bird migration.
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Reductionism
Reductionism in philosophy is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduction to the nature of sums of simpler or more fundamental things. This can be said of object s, phenomena, explanations, theory, and meanings.
Reductionism is often understood to imply the unity of science.
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Reduviidae
Reduviidae is a family of predatory insects in the suborder Heteroptera. It includes assassin bugs and wheel bugs, ambush bugs, and thread-legged bugs.
Some blood-sucking reduviidae are also known as kissing bugs.
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Redwing
The Redwing is a member of the Thrush family Turdidae.
It breeds in conifer and birch forest and tundra in northern Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. It is a very rare breeder in Great Britain and Ireland, but winters in large numbers in these countries.
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Redwood
Redwood is a name used for several species of trees with red or reddish coloured wood; see each species for individual details. It is also used as a place name on its own or in combination, sometimes for places associated with redwood trees but not always.
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Reed Bunting
The Reed Bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
It breeds across Europe and much of temperate and northern Asia. Most birds are bird migration south in winter, but those in the milder south and west of the range are resident.
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Reed canary grass
Reed canary grass is a tall, coarse-looking perennial grass that commonly forms extensive single-species stands along the margins of lakes and streams and in wet open areas, with a wide distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.
The stems can reach 2 m in height.
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Reed pipe
A Reed pipe is a type of pipe found in pipe organs qualified by the use of a vibrating brass strip instead of the simple vibration of air, as in a flue pipe.
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Reef
In nautical terminology, a reef is a Rock, bar, or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water yet shallow enough to be a hazard to ships. Many reefs result from abiotic processes—deposition of sand, wave erosion planning down rock outcrops, and other natural processes— but the best-known reefs are the coral reefs of tropical waters developed through biotic processes dominated by corals and calcareous algae.
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