ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MADREPORE
Via French from Italian madrepora mother-stone, from madre mother + -pora, from Latin porus or Greek poros calcareous stone, stalactite.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MADREPORE»
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A General Account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow: ...
Madrepora Rosea, Rose-coloured Madrepore Shrubby, branches some- JLp
rtment. times divided pair-wise, "preading stars orominent often in pairs, lamella;
un- equal and projecting out. centre convex and as if worm-eaten. It is from the
Nat.
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A General Account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, ...
Madrepora Rosea, Rose-coloured Madrepore. Shrubby, branches some-
Apartment, times divided pair-wise, spreading stars prominent often in pairs,
lamellx un- — equal and projecting out, centre convex and as if worm-eaten It is
from the ...
3
The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and ...
about to pitch me again into the sea, when his elder brother, taking me out of his '
hand and looking at me, exclaimed, " This is a madrepore, Freddy ; don't throw it
away. I shall try to polish it." " A madrepore ! " repeated Freddy, and some ...
Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1854
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Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the ...
11, all the characters of the porpital madrepore on its disk, but having its body
extended into a conical shape, forms, as it were, the link which connects into one
species, the porpital madrepore and the madrepore just described.' The most ...
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A New and Accurate System of Natural History ...
There are several sorts of them, as the stellated Madrepore akin to Coral; the
branched Madrepore akin to Coral ; the Madrepore or Millepore of Tournefort; the
common Madrepore or fistulous white Coral; the Madrepore like southernwood ...
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Museum Calonnianum: Specification of the Various Articles ...
MADREPORA — Madrepore — Madrepore. 1390. Madrepore Etoile — Stellated
Madrepore — St. Paul's Abbey, near Dax and BaLione — This is satured with
iron ore. 1391. Madrepore Etouee — Stellated Madrepore — In a red limestone, ...
Charles Alexandre de Calonne, George Humphrey, 1797
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Organic Remains of a Former World: The fossil zoophytes
MADREPORE MADREPOREAN POLYPE FOSSIL MADREPORE DIFFICULTY IN
ASCERTAINING THE SPECIES TURBINATED MADREPORE VARIETIES OF
REMARKS ON ITS FORMATION. We shall now proceed to the examination of the
...
VARIETIES OF....REMARKS ON ITS FORMATION. WE shall now proceed to the
examination of the genus MADREPORE, under which genus are placed all those
corals, the cavities of which are divided by lamellte disposed in a stellular form.
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Animal biography, or, Popular zoology
The Prickly Madrepore.— In some of the southern climates, this Madrepore is in
such extraordinary abundance, as occasionally to form immense beds at the
bottom of the sea. In height it increases, without limit, until it is arrested by the line
of ...
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The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. Containing I. An ...
Madrepore. This little coralline substance is frequent on all the larger decaying
masses of this class, and seldom or never observed to rise above a tenth or an
eighth of an inch in height: it is of a beautiful red colour and an uneven form; but ...
Patrick Browne, Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1789
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MADREPORE»
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The band has gone through several transformations as punk bands Anima and Madrepore with a revolving door of drummers, but the band ... «The Daily Titan, Apr 11»
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I 10 animali dannosi per l'ambiente e la biodiversità
Sono prevalentemente notturne e vivono in prossimità delle formazioni coralline nutrendosi dei polipi e del cenosarco delle madrepore. «greenMe.it, Apr 10»
