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单词 nullipore
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nulliporen.

Brit. /ˈnʌlᵻpɔː/, U.S. /ˈnələˌpɔr/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French nullipore.
Etymology: < French nullipore (1803) < nulli- nulli- comb. form + pore pore n.1, so called from having no visible pores, in contrast to the millepore corals with which they were at first erroneously classified. Compare scientific Latin Nullipora . Compare earlier millepore n., and compare madrepore n. and etymological note at that entry.
Zoology.
Any of a group of chiefly tropical calcareous red algae (coralline rhodophytes) of the genus Lithothamnion and related genera (order Corallinales), which play a part in the consolidation of coral reefs.
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1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 363/1 In his system, the Nullipores are rejected from the place so long assigned them.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xiii. §560 Brilliant, rosy, or peach coloured Nullipores overgrow the decaying masses.
1882 A. Geikie Geol. Sketches 34 We pick up..broken whelks, nullipores, and corallines.
1904 F. W. Oliver tr. A. Kerner Nat. Hist. Plants (ed. 2) ii. 614 The many calcareous Florideæ which come down to us as Nullipore banks are deceptively like those living at the present day.
1934 R. Lloyd Praeger Botanist in Ireland (1974) §386 Along the shore, limy sands, formed mainly of foraminifera and nullipores, have been widely scattered by westerly gales.
1982 Ecol. Monogr. 52 228/1 Living coral covers 16% of the substrata... Sand and unstable nullipores extend beyond 10m depth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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