Crossword-Solution: NULLIPORE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nullipore | n. | A name for certain crustaceous marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion. |
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| LIME-secreting marine vegetation | 2 answers |
| MARINE vegetation able to secrete lime | 2 answers |
| MARINE vegetation | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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CEAZME
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Sentences with NULLIPORE (4)
Well then, coming back to the margin of the reef, you find that part of it which lies just within the surf to be coated by a very curious plant, a sort of seaweed, which contains in its substance a very great deal of carbonate of lime, and looks almost like rock; this is what is called the nullipore.
They are all prickly sea-eggs (presumably the _Echinus lividus_, which is found in similar places in the west of Ireland), each buried for life in a cup-shaped hole which he has excavated in the rock, and shut in by an overhanging lip of living lime—seemingly a Nullipore coralline.
Nullipore limestone, formed by the stony thallus (frond) of the calcareous sea-weed _Lithothamnion_, as in the Leithakalk, a common building stone of Vienna.
Thus we are enabled to distinguish Mollusca of (_a_) the _littoral_, (_b_) the _laminarian_, (_c_) the _nullipore_, or _coralline_, and (_d_) the _abyssal_ zones.