MILLEPORA

Meaning of MILLEPORA in English

noun a genus of hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

MILLEPORA — ˌmiləˈpōrə, mə̇ˈlepərə noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Latin mille thousand + New Latin -pora : a genus of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MILLEPORA — (n.) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.
Английский словарь Webster
MILLEPORA — ( n. ) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
FIRE CORAL — noun Date: 1953 a colonial coralline hydrozoan (genus Millepora ) having nematocysts that inflict a painful and burning sting
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SEA GINGER — noun : a hydrocoral ( Millepora alcicornis ) with branching fingerlike processes that much resembles dried gingerroot
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MILLEPORINA — ˌmiləpəˈrīnə, -rēnə noun plural Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Millepora + -ina : an order of Hydrozoa comprising reef-building …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MILLEPORE — ˈmiləˌpō(ə)r noun Etymology: New Latin Millepora : any of the stony hydrozoan reef-building corals comprising the order Milleporina with the …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SEA GINGER — () A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because …
Английский словарь Webster
MILLEPORE — (n.) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or …
Английский словарь Webster
HYDROCORALLIA — (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms …
Английский словарь Webster
SEA GINGER — A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MILLEPORE — ( n. ) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HYDROCORALLIA — ( n. pl. ) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MILLEPORE — /mil"euh pawr', -pohr'/ , n. a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FIRE CORAL — Date: 1953 : a colonial coralline hydrozoan (genus Millepora ) having nematocysts that inflict a painful and burning sting
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SEA GINGER — a hydroid coral of the genus millepora, especially m. alcicornis, of the west indies and florida. so called because it …
Webster English vocab
MILLEPORE — noun any coral of the genus millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or …
Webster English vocab
HYDROCORALLIA — noun ·pl a division of hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as millepora and stylaster. two forms …
Webster English vocab
MILLEPORE — [ 'mɪlɪpɔ: ] ■ noun Zoology a fire coral. Origin C18: from Fr. millépore or mod. L. millepora , from …
Concise Oxford English vocab
FIRE CORAL — ■ noun a colonial coral-like hydrozoan which can inflict painful stings. [Genus Millepora .]
Concise Oxford English vocab
MILLEPORE — also called Stinging Coral, or Pepper Coral (Millepora), any of a genus of invertebrate marine animals comprising the order Milleporina …
Britannica English vocabulary
MILLEPORE — n. a reef-building coral of the order Milleporina, with polyps protruding through pores in the calcareous exoskeleton. [F mill÷pore or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MILLEPORE — n. a reef-building coral of the order Milleporina, with polyps protruding through pores in the calcareous exoskeleton. [ F millépore …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MILLEPORE — n. a reef-building coral of the order Milleporina, with polyps protruding through pores in the calcareous exoskeleton. Etymology: F mill{eacute}pore …
Oxford English vocab

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