MADREPORARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Madreporaria mean? 

• MADREPORARIA (noun)
  The noun MADREPORARIA has 1 sense:

1. stony corals

  Familiarity information: MADREPORARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADREPORARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stony corals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Madreporaria; order Madreporaria

Hypernyms ("Madreporaria" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Madreporaria"):

madrepore; madriporian coral; stony coral (corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands)

genus Maeandra; Maeandra (brain corals)

Acropora; genus Acropora (coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals)

Fungia; genus Fungia (a genus comprising the usual mushroom corals)

Holonyms ("Madreporaria" is a member of...):

Actinozoa; Anthozoa; class Actinozoa; class Anthozoa (a large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed)