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Definition of Madreporite
1. n. A fossil coral.
Definition of Madreporite
1. Noun. A fossil coral. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Madreporite
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Medical Definition of Madreporite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Madreporite
Literary usage of Madreporite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"The inner madreporite is found in the form of a variously shaped swelling on ...
Branched stone canals, with a madreporite at the distal end of each branch, ..."
2. Revision of Paleozoic Stelleroidea with Special Reference to North American by Charles Schuchert (1915)
"madreporite.—In more than half of the Paleozoic asterids the madreporic plate
... The madreporite in size varies from minute to very large and ponderous. ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"The madreporite, in Ophiothrix as in most Brittle Stars, is an exceedingly
rudimentary structure, consisting of one or two pores leading into as many ..."
4. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1881)
"through the pores in the madreporite. Greeff recognised that the so-called ...
He likewise believed the marginal pores of the madreporite to lead directly ..."
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