millepore

American

[mil-uh-pawr, -pohr] / ˈmɪl əˌpɔr, -ˌpoʊr /

noun

a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.

millepore British

/ ˈmɪlɪˌpɔː /

noun

any tropical colonial coral-like medusoid hydrozoan of the order Milleporina, esp of the genus Millepora , having a calcareous skeleton

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Etymology

Origin of millepore

1745–55; < New Latin millepora, equivalent to mille thousand + -pora passage; see pore ²

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These hills afford neither shrubs nor flowers, but furnish the finest specimens of millepore in the world; and the water courses are full of fossil productions.

From Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope

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