tubiporite

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English

Etymology

From tubipore +‎ -ite.

Noun

tubiporite (plural tubiporites)

  1. (paleontology) Any fossil coral of the genusSyringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.

Further reading

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tubiporite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)