madreporid, n. and a. Zool.
(mædrɪˈpɔərɪd)
[ad. mod.L. Madreporidæ, f. madrepora: see madrepore and -id.]
a. n. An animal of the family Madreporidæ, including the genus Madrepora. b. adj. Pertaining to the Madreporidæ. Hence madreˈporidan a., characteristic of the Madreporidæ.
| 1899 Bernard in Jrnl. Linn. Soc., Zool. XXVII. 130 Porites is..related to the Madreporids. Ibid. 141 An exclusively Madreporid origin. Ibid. 142 There is no reason why further growth should not simply enlarge it without necessarily running it into ancestral Madreporidan lines. |