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Webster 1913 Edition

Porites

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Po-ri′tes

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

πόροσ

a pore.]

(Zool.)

An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.

Definition 2024

porites

porites

English

Noun

porites

plural of porite