millepore (redirected from millepores)

mil·le·pore  (ml-pôr, -pr)

n.

Any of various reef-building hydrocorals of the order Milleporina of tropical marine waters, forming white or yellowish calcareous structures and resembling the true corals of the class Anthozoa.

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[Italian millepora : mille, thousand (from Latin mlle, thousand; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots) + -pora (alteration of poro, tufa, pore; see madrepore).]