madrepore

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A coral of the genus Madrepora or of the order Madreporaria.
    — The beauty of the madrepores and corallines, of which the finest specimens are found in the recesses of the Bay of Tappanuli, is not to be surpassed in any country.
  2. Any stony coral. archaic
    — This bay is approached from the choir by the first marble step which is in Frosterley, a marble with beautiful madrepores of light colour on a dark ground.

词形变化

madrepores plural

词汇关系

衍生词
madreporiform madreporite

词源

From French madrépore, from Italian madrepora (from madre (“mother”)), from Latin mater + poro (“pore”), from Latin porus.
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