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Porites

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Po`ri´tes
n.1.(Zool.) 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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Wounds on Acropora millepora corals appear blue, for example, while injured tissues on Porites species-like the raised and swollen patches seen above-are an "intense" bubble-gum pink.
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