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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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