Word Meanings - TUBIPORITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.

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• 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
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• FOSSILIZE
  1. To become fossil. 2. To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• CORALLIGENA
  See ANTHOZOA
• FOSSIL
  Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• FOSSILIST
  One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• CORK FOSSIL
  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• TETRACORALLA
  See RUGOSA
• INTERTRANSVERSE
  Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
• 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.
• TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.
• 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.