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madrepore


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Madrepore  \Mad"re*pore\,  n.  [F.  madrepore,  perh.  fr  madr['e] 
  spotted,  fr  OF  madre,  mazre,  a  kind  of  knotty  wood  with 
  brown  spots,  fr  OHG.  masar  a  knot,  grain,  or  vein  in  wood,  a 
  speck,  G.  maser  +  pore  (see  {Pore});  or  perh.  F.  madr['e]pore 
  is  rather  from  It  madrepora,  and  this  perh.  fr  It  madre 
  mother  (see  {Mother})  +  Gr  ?  a  soft  stone.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  Any  coral  of  the  genus  Madrepora;  formerly,  often  applied  to 
  any  stony  coral. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  madrepore 
  n  :  corals  having  calcareous  skeletons  aggregations  of  which 
  form  reefs  and  islands  [syn:  {stony  coral},  {madriporian 
  coral}] 




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