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单词 madreporite
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madreporiten.

Brit. /ˌmadrᵻˈpɔːrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌmædrəˈpɔraɪt/
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements. Etymons: madrepore n., Latin Madrepora , -ite suffix1.
Etymology: < either madrepore n. or scientific Latin Madrepora (see madrepore n.) + -ite suffix1. With sense 1, compare scientific Latin Madreporites , genus name (W. Martin Petrificata Derbiensia (1809) II. 20), and meandrite n. In sense 2, after German Madreporstein (C. M. Schroll & J. B. Heim 1797, in K. E. F. von Moll Jahrbücher der Berg- u. Hüttenkunde 1 291); compare also German Madreporit , French madréporite . Used in senses 2 and 3 with reference to a resemblance to madreporarian coral.
1. Palaeontology. A fossil madreporarian coral. Now rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Madreporaria > member of
pore coral1708
madrepore1738
madreporite1802
madrepore coral1869
madreporarian1870
madreporacean1877
scleractinian1900
madreporian1961
1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 147 Its cells and tubes extend, as is the case in mäandrites or madreporites [Ger. Mäandriten oder Gehirnsteine], in a parallel line from the surface.
1819 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. IV. xvi. 200 Small rocks of meandrites, madreporites, and other corals.
1859 N. F. Moore Anc. Mineral. (ed. 2) 228 We might, perhaps, be justified in supposing it to have been an organic fossil, the asteria, or stella marina; or, since that is a very rare fossil, perhaps a madreporite.
1963 R. O. Muir tr. M. Schwarzbach Climates of Past i. iv. 31 (table) Madreporites in modern reefs.
2. Geology. A calcareous rock having a radiating prismatic or columnar structure and resembling coralline limestone. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun]
madreporite1816
sedimentary1878
1816 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 189 This mineral, which was first discovered by Von Moll, in the Russbachthal in Salzburg, was named by him Madreporite, on account of the resemblance of its prismatic concretions to certain lithophytes.
1856 Amer. Encycl. Hist., Biogr., & Travel 917 The whole land seems to be composed of innumerable fragments of thin schistose limestone, some of which..present the cellular structure usually found in madreporite.
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 240 Madreporite, a variety of limestone having a small prismatic or columnar structure which looks like the pore arrangement of coral.
3. Zoology. A pore or perforated plate in echinoderms by which seawater enters the stone canal of the water-vascular system.
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1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 496 We do not yet know whether these pores are genital outlets or perhaps play the part of a ‘madreporite’.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ix. 554 The madreporic tubercle or madreporite.
1884 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 24 31 The madreporite or water-pore in Asterids usually punctures a basal plate.
1940 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 6) xi. 687 On the same surface..is a flat, nearly circular plate, the surface of which is marked by a number of radiating, narrow, straight, or slightly wavy grooves; this is the madreporite.
1983 E. C. Minkoff Evolutionary Biol. xxvi. 485/1 The central ring is also connected to the seawater outside by a canal that penetrates the overlying dermal plate through a pore called the madreporite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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