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Definition of Nullipore
1. n. A name for certain crustaceous marine algæ which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.
Definition of Nullipore
1. Noun. Any of various crustaceous marine algae which secrete calcium carbonate. ¹
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Definition of Nullipore
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Medical Definition of Nullipore
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nullipore
Literary usage of Nullipore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1881)
"Several dead specimens off the north-east coast of Holy Isle, 25 fathoms, nullipore
bottom. Urania anomala (Muller). Frequent along the south-west side of ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"nullipore, the name of a division of tie coralline order of marine plants,
belonging: to the ... nullipore."
3. The Coral Reefs of the Tropical Pacific by Alexander Agassiz (1903)
"thus forms a shallow sink, the outer nullipore edge forming as it were the
diminutive barrier reef of a shallow and narrow lagoon on the outer part of the ..."
4. The Atoll of Funafuti: Borings Into a Coral Reef and the Results, Being the by Thomas George Bonney (1904)
"4) corresponds to our " nullipore rim," which owes its deep madder-red tint to
one group of these algre. Forming a low mound which rises to a height of ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1894)
"... are so much larger than those of a nullipore, the genus ... A Cells of a recent
nullipore (Lithothamnion). x 160 d. ..."
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