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Madrepore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of various stony corals of the order Madreporaria, which includes the reef builders of tropical seas.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A coral of the order Madreporaria

n. Any stony coral.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Any coral of the genus Madrepora, a group of corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An animal, or a coral, of the genus Madrepora or family Madreporidœ; the polypite or the polypidom of a perforate madreporarian: a name loosely extended to any stone-coral with madre poriform cavities or openings.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands

Word Usage

"But in order to do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

coral

Cross Reference

madrepore glass madrepore marble

Hyponym

staghorn coral mushroom coral brain coral stag's-horn coral

Form

madreporite

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

stony coral madriporian coral

Same Context

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