madreporidn.adj.
/ˌmadrᵻˈpɔːrɪd/, U.S. /ˌmædrəˈpɔrɪd/ Zoology. Now rare.
A. n.
A coral of the family Madreporidae, which includes the genus Madrepora.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Madreporaria > member of family Madreporidae
madreporid1872
1872 J. D. Dana Corals & Coral Islands i. 109 In the Madrepora tribe (Madreporacea), all of the Madreporids and Poritids.
1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) B. 187 327 It comes to be a question how far the recent Poritidæ are related with the recent Madreporids.
1899 Jrnl. Linn. Soc.: Zool. 27 130 Porites is..related to the Madreporids.
1918 Amer. Naturalist 52 412 In the Madrepora tribe, all of the Madreporids and Poritids.
B. adj.
Of or relating to this family.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or relating to the Anthozoa
anthozoic1843
anthozoan1844
anthozooid1851
actinozoal1861
actinozoan1885
madreporid1897
madreporidan1899
1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) B. 187 260 In so far as septa are concerned, I recognized..five leading types, viz...(4) Madreporid.
1899 Jrnl. Linn. Soc.: Zool. 27 141 An exclusively Madreporid origin.
Derivatives
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or relating to the Anthozoa
anthozoic1843
anthozoan1844
anthozooid1851
actinozoal1861
actinozoan1885
madreporid1897
madreporidan1899
1899 Jrnl. Linn. Soc.: Zool. 27 142 There is no reason why further growth should not simply enlarge it without necessarily running it into ancestral Madreporidan lines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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