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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Millepore

/(mĭl"lē̇*pōr)/ · Mil·le·pore · IPA
01 n. Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals ar…
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    Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.(Zool.) See: Hydrocorallia