Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coralline hydrozoan of the family Milleporidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See
hydrocorallia .
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- noun zoology Any
coral of thegenus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, andperforated with very minute unequalpores , orcells .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Italian millepora : mille, thousand (from Latin mīlle, thousand; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots) + -pora (alteration of poro, tufa, pore; see madrepore).]
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Latin mille thousand + porus pore: compare French millépore.
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Examples
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These hills afford neither shrubs nor flowers, but furnish the finest specimens of millepore in the world; and the water courses are full of fossil productions.
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