单词 | nullipore |
释义 | nulliporen. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > others manatee grass1696 pepper dulse1724 pipeweed1755 sea-beard1777 Iceland sea grass1809 Porphyra1836 nullipore1840 sea-thread1843 niggerhair1852 lucky minnie's lines1853 marine sauce1866 hijiki1951 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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