millepore

[ mil-uh-pawr, -pohr ]

noun

1. a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.

millepore

/ ˈmɪlɪˌpɔː /

noun

1. any tropical colonial coral-like medusoid hydrozoan of the order Milleporina, esp of the genus Millepora , having a calcareous skeleton

Word History and Origins

Origin of millepore¹

1745–55; < New Latin millepora, equivalent to mille thousand + -pora passage; pore ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of millepore¹

C18: from New Latin, from Latin mille thousand + porus hole

Example Sentences

Millepore, mil′e-pōr, n. a species of branching coral, having a smooth surface with numerous minute, distinct pores or cells.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

They are the only known Corals that date so far back as the Upper Cambrian; and they continue under very similar forms all through the Palæozic, and are represented by the millepore corals of the present day.

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The Millepore is very abundant on the Florida reefs.

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The Pocillopora, an Acalephian coral, the Pacific representative of the Millepore of Florida, is especially abundant.

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It has a flat surface, and, on all sides, except the north, is bounded by perpendicular cliffs about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less porous, honey-combed at the surface, and hardening 789 into a compact calcareous mass, which possesses the fracture of secondary limestone, and has a species of millepore interspersed through it.

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