Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a madrepore; characteristic of a madrepore; madreporic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.

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  • adjective Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.

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Examples

  • And for every wing above it had a leg below, with a claw like a comb at the tip, and a nostril at the root; and in the middle it had no stomach and one eye; and as for its mouth, that was all on one side, as the madreporiform tubercle in a star-fish is.

    The Water Babies 2007

  • And for every wing before it had a leg below, with a claw like a comb at the tip, and a nostril at the root; and in the middle it had no stomach and one eye; and as for its mouth, that was all on one side, as the madreporiform tubercle in a starfish is.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • And for every wing above it had a leg below, with a claw like a comb at the tip, and a nostril at the root; and in the middle it had no stomach and one eye; and as for its mouth, that was all on one side, as the madreporiform tubercle in a star-fish is.

    The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847

  • And for every wing above it had a leg below, with a claw like a comb at the tip, and a nostril at the root; and in the middle it had no stomach and one eye; and as for its mouth, that was all on one side, as the madreporiform tubercle in a star - fish is.

    The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847

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