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Definition of Millepore
1. n. Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.
Definition of Millepore
1. Noun. (zoology) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. ¹
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Definition of Millepore
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Medical Definition of Millepore
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Millepore
Literary usage of Millepore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geology of the Country Between Whitby and Scarborough: (Explanation of by George Barrow, Charles Fox-Strangways (1882)
"The millepore Bed.—The best section of this marine bed is on the shore just north of
... This reef, which represents the millepore Bed to the south of ..."
2. The Geology of England and Wales: A Concise Account of the Lithological by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1876)
"The beds appear in the cliffs from Robin Hood's Bay to Huntcliff. millepore
Bed (Yorkshire). This bed, so named from the occurrence of ..."
3. Museum Calonnianum: Specification of the Various Articles which Compose the ...by Charles Alexandre de Calonne, George Humphrey by Charles Alexandre de Calonne, George Humphrey (1797)
"... coated over with the millepore. The bafe of this is alfo over-run by the ...
partly over-run by the millepore, Grenada; g. a delicately branched ditto ..."
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