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MADREPORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does madrepore mean? 

MADREPORE (noun)
  The noun MADREPORE has 1 sense:

1. corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islandsplay

  Familiarity information: MADREPORE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MADREPORE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

madrepore; madriporian coral; stony coral

Hypernyms ("madrepore" is a kind of...):

coral (marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "madrepore"):

brain coral (massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface)

stag's-horn coral; staghorn coral (large branching coral resembling antlers)

mushroom coral (flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached))

Holonyms ("madrepore" is a member of...):

Madreporaria; order Madreporaria (stony corals)


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