| 单词 | porite coral |
| 释义 | > as lemmasporite coral A coral of the genus Porites or family Poritidae (see Porites n.). Chiefly attributive in porite coral.The plural form is scarcely distinguishable from Porites n., and ambiguous instances have been placed in that entry. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > division Perforata > member of family Poritidae porite1828 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Porite, a petrified madrepore. Dict. Nat. Hist. 1867 Proc. Royal Geog. Soc. 12 343 Calabash Kay..is bounded on the side next the reef by solid rocks of porite coral, meandrina, and honeycombs. 1936 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 7 Mar. 2/2 Just above him on a shelf of green porite coral is the Queen Trigger fish. 2002 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times (Nexis) 2 Oct. b1 Researchers have interest in the survival of coral such as these porite corals in the Gulf of Mexico. 2005 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 30 Mar. 3 Visual observation confirmed coral, such as porite and acropora, at the central part of the atolls. < as lemmas |
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