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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling a
madreporian coral inform orstructure .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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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