cay

1.名詞B2

釋義

a tiny island with very little height above the sea, found in warm ocean waters and formed from sand, coral, or rock

例句

Theo spotted a tiny cay covered in palm trees near the Belize coast.

collocation: tiny cay / palm-covered cay

Amara walked across the narrow cay in less than ten minutes.

同義詞

key
a different spelling of the same word, more common in Florida (e.g. the Florida Keys)
islet
a more general term for any very small island, not necessarily tropical or made of coral
atoll
a ring-shaped coral formation that surrounds a lagoon; a cay is a solid island, not a ring

❌Australia is the largest cay in the world.

✅Australia is a continent, not a cay.

💡a cay is always small and low-lying; large landmasses are called islands or continents.

❌We stayed on a cay in the middle of London.

✅We stayed on a houseboat in London.

💡cays only occur in tropical ocean waters, not in cities or rivers.

cay — noun