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What is a madrepore?

What is a madrepore? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A coral of the genus Madrepora or of the larger group Madreporaria.
  2. (archaic) Any stony coral.
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The madrepore corals are called reef-builders, but not in the sense of constructors of reefs.
The madrepore stone is found among the fossil productions of Ashton.
Finally, as a last despairing effort, I took a pencil and began to make a sketch of a madrepore.
Constructions in madrepore resist rather well the seisms, frequent but with low intensities in the region.
It is in fact of the shape of a goblet, and its substance is intermediate between that of a sponge and a madrepore.
One need only glance at the photographs of osmotic productions to recognize the forms of madrepore, fungus, alga, and shell.

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