millepore

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French millépore, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mille (thousand) + porus (pore)

Noun

millepore (plural millepores)

  1. (zoology) Any coral of the genus Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for millepore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)