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Definition of madrepore in English: madreporenoun ˌmadrɪˈpɔːˈmædrəˌpɔr 1A stony coral of the genus Madrepora. Example sentencesExamples - Constructions in madrepore resist rather well the seisms, frequent but with low intensities in the region.
- Their characteristic feature is the mouth, which has two robust incisor teeth that are joined and create a ‘beak’ that can easily break madrepores and pick up tiny algae off the rocks.
- It is an extraordinary sight, like scattered carpets flung down, rich brown and gold, blue-white and green, with fans of plate coral and the occasional madrepore or staghorn standing above it.
- As such, coral reefs are created from the accumulation of these madrepores.
- The edge of the drop-off is punctuated by large formations of madrepores with contorted outlines.
2The polyp producing the stony coral of the genus Madrepora. Example sentencesExamples - They were naturalists, come to see the very first marine aquarium in England, a large collection of madrepores and sea sponges kept in glass cases in the drawing-room of Ashburnham House.
- The local waters offer a wide range of subaquatic wonders including corals, sponges, madrepores, parrot fish and lobsters.
- The corals and the madrepores that formed 180 million years ago the limestone of the ancient sea bottom, today are the base of the thin layers that keep alive this wide wooded mantle.
- The sea represents the island's major richness: colours, transparency, seabeds teeming with fish, madrepores and sea-sponges.
- Glide into a deep blue abyss alive with bright small fish species, moray eels and madrepores.
Derivativesadjective The oculars in Evechinus also, were never found to have the madreporic surface continued onto them. Example sentencesExamples - The low depth - 18 metres on average - guarantees a lot of dive time and the opportunity to explore the unusually large madreporic pinnacles, as well as the cave openings that are inhabited by large groupers who love the camera, with the utmost tranquillity.
- At night it is more active, preying on sleeping bony fishes, crustaceans and cephalopods, which it pursues with great vigor, often wriggling its way without injury through the gaps in the madreporic formations and even breaking off bits of coral to get at its victim.
- So I was able to study the madreporic process that has created the islands in this ocean.
- Bassas da India is an emerging, circular madreporic atoll, with an area lower than 1 sq. km.
Definition of madrepore in US English: madreporenounˈmadrəˌpôrˈmædrəˌpɔr 1A stony coral of the genus Madrepora. Example sentencesExamples - It is an extraordinary sight, like scattered carpets flung down, rich brown and gold, blue-white and green, with fans of plate coral and the occasional madrepore or staghorn standing above it.
- The edge of the drop-off is punctuated by large formations of madrepores with contorted outlines.
- Constructions in madrepore resist rather well the seisms, frequent but with low intensities in the region.
- Their characteristic feature is the mouth, which has two robust incisor teeth that are joined and create a ‘beak’ that can easily break madrepores and pick up tiny algae off the rocks.
- As such, coral reefs are created from the accumulation of these madrepores.
2The polyp producing the stony coral of the genus Madrepora. Example sentencesExamples - Glide into a deep blue abyss alive with bright small fish species, moray eels and madrepores.
- They were naturalists, come to see the very first marine aquarium in England, a large collection of madrepores and sea sponges kept in glass cases in the drawing-room of Ashburnham House.
- The corals and the madrepores that formed 180 million years ago the limestone of the ancient sea bottom, today are the base of the thin layers that keep alive this wide wooded mantle.
- The sea represents the island's major richness: colours, transparency, seabeds teeming with fish, madrepores and sea-sponges.
- The local waters offer a wide range of subaquatic wonders including corals, sponges, madrepores, parrot fish and lobsters.
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