madrepore

How to use madrepore in a sentence

• I could observe groups and clusters of coloured coral and madrepore-stone, whose magnificence challenges all description.

  A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer

• The madrepore corals are called reef-builders, but not in the sense of constructors of reefs.

  The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold

• Third picture: in shallow seas have sprung up isles of madrepore; a cluster of palm trees overhangs them here and there.

  Bouvard and Pcuchet | Gustave Flaubert

• Many of these limestones owe their beauty to the fossil corals which they contain, and are hence known as “madrepore marbles.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 6 | Various

• Those here are of reddish variegated, hardened sandstone, with madrepore holes in it.

  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David Livingstone