Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Millepore

Millepore (mil"le*pōr) , noun

[Latin mille thousand + porus pore: compare French millépore.]

(Zoology) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.