单词 | millepore |
释义 | milleporen. Zoology. A colonial hydrozoan (hydrocoral) of a group which includes the genus Millepora and is characterized by the secretion of coral-like calcareous skeletons covered with minute pores through which the polyps protrude (sometimes distinguished as an order or suborder Milleporina). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Hydrocorallinae > member of > member of family Milleporidae millepore1753 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 449 The several species of vermicular tubes found in the sea, the madrepores, millepores, lithophytons, corallines, sponges. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 175 Those of the coral class as madrepores, millepores, astroites. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 558 Zoophytes are usually considered under two divisions: the stony branches of the first, which has the general appellation of Coral..consist of the Tubipores, Madrepores, Millipores, and Cellepores. 1862 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 2 149 Millepores, Madrepores, Seriatopores [etc.]. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 159 The thecal canals of the Millepores. 1934 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyone I. v. 91 Some of the hydroid colonies have become very much embedded in limestone, just like corals, and it is striking to find that some of these Millepores, as they are called, liberate free-swimming medusoids. 1979 D. L. Dineley Fossils iv. 89 In Mesozoic..reefs they are replaced by the millepores. 1992 Bull. Marine Sci. 51 245 Stenothoe valida, a small..amphipod frequently associated with coelenterates, is commensal on millepore hydrocorals in Barbados. DerivativesΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Milleporeus,..milleporeous. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Milleporiform. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of class Hydrozoa > relating to order Hydrocorallinae > belonging to or resembling a millepore milleporous1755 1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines Contents sig. d1 Foliaceous milleporous Eschara. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Milleporus,..milleporous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1753 |
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