madreporite
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Contents |
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Noun
madreporite (plural madreporites)
- A fossil coral.
- 1839, Report of the progress of the Geological Survey for the year 1839[1]:
- a similar Madreporite deposite is noticed a few feet above the coal seam
- 1943, “Publications of the Folklore Society (Great Britain)”, page 138:
- Whether madreporite occurs naturally in Spain, I do not know
- 1989, Archives of Natural History, page 199:
- Madreporite was regarded as a variety of calcite and anthraconite a lamellar variety of madreporite
- 1839, Report of the progress of the Geological Survey for the year 1839[1]:
[edit] References
- madreporite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
