madrepore

Other forms of madrepore

plural

madrepores·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about madrepore

What does madrepore mean?

madrepore means "corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands".

How many syllables are in madrepore?

madrepore has 3 syllables and divides as ma-dre-pore under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for madrepore?

Close synonyms include stony coral, madriporian coral. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is madrepore a common word?

madrepore is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.