Word Meanings - MILLEPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to MILLEPORE)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• CORALLUM
  The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• PERFORATA
  A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa. A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.
• HYDROCORALLIA
  A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• CORALLIGENA
  See ANTHOZOA
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• UNEQUALNESS
  The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• TETRACORALLA
  See RUGOSA
• IMPERFORATA
  A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.