Meaning of madreporite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A calcareous opening in the body of echinoderms which connects the water vascular system to the environment.
2. A fossil stony coral, or a deposit composed of the same.
   archaic

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Examples

“a similar Madreporite deposite is noticed a few feet above the coal seam”

“Whether madreporite occurs naturally in Spain, I do not know”

“Madreporite was regarded as a variety of calcite and anthraconite a lamellar variety of madreporite”

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