تعريف coral bleaching في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
The loss of colour in a coral reef due to the loss of symbiotic algae as a result of stress
n: The loss of color from a coral as it expels its zooxanthellae-usually a stress response
the process in which a coral polyp, under environmental stress, expels its symbiotic zooxanthellae from its body The affected coral colony appears whitened
A whitening of corals indicative of colony stress, where symbiotic algal cells, or zooxanthellae, either leave or are ejected from the colonies