'Madrepore' definitions:
Definition of 'madrepore'
From: WordNet
noun
Corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands [syn: stony coral, madrepore, madriporian coral]
Definition of 'Madrepore'
From: GCIDE
- Madrepore \Mad"re*pore\, n. [F. madrepore, perh. fr. madr['e] spotted, fr. OF. madre, mazre, a kind of knotty wood with brown spots, fr. OHG. masar a knot, grain, or vein in wood, a speck, G. maser + pore (see Pore); or perh. F. madr['e]pore is rather from It. madrepora, and this perh. fr. It. madre mother (see Mother) + Gr. ? a soft stone.] (Zool.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora, a group of corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.
- Syn: stony coral, madriporian coral. [1913 Webster]