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millepore Zool. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmɪlɪpɔə(r)|
[ad. mod.L. millepora, f. mille thousand + por-us passage, pore n., or ad. F. millépore. (See the note s.v. madrepore.)]
Any one of the Hydromedusæ (formerly regarded as zoantharian corals) of the genus Millepora or of the family Milleporidæ, in which the coral-like calcareous skeleton is covered with minute pores.
1751Stack in Phil. Trans. XLVII. 449 The several species of vermicular tubes found in the sea, the madrepores, millepores, lithophytons, corallines, sponges. 1862Stoddart in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. II. 149 Millepores, Madrepores, Seriatopores [etc.].
Hence milleˈporiform a., having the form or appearance of a millepore (Cent. Dict. 1890). ˈmilleporine a., pertaining to or having the characters of the hydrozoan family Milleporina; resembling a millepore (Cent. Dict.). milleˈporeous a. = milleporous (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1856). ˈmilleporite, a fossil millepore. milleˈporous a., belonging to or resembling a millepore; having thousands of pores (Mayne).
1755J. Ellis Corallines Contents d, Foliaceous milleporous Eschara. 1802–3tr. Pallas' Trav. (1812) II. 128 We occasionally noticed single entrochites, or almost obliterated traces of milleporites. |