Word Meanings - PORITES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• 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
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• RAYLESS
  Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• GLOBULARLY
  Spherically.
• RAYONNANT
  Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.
• BRANCHING
  Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
• TWELVE
  One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
• BRANCHIOPODA
  An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
• BRANCHINESS
  Fullness of branches.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• TRAY-TRIP
  An old game played with dice. Shak.
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• POLYSPOROUS
  Containing many spores.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• CRAY; CRAYER
  See CRARE
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
• TRAY
  To betray; to deceive. Chaucer.
• STING RAY; STINGRAY
  Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
• BETA RAYS
  Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.