millepore noun. ['mɪlɪpɔ:] M18.
[mod. Latin Millepora (see below), from Latin mille thousand + porus passage, PORE noun.]
Zoology. Any of a group or order (Milleporina) of colonial hydrozoans which secrete coral-like calcareous skeletons covered with minute pores through which the polyps protrude; esp. a hydrozoan of the genus Millepora.

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