資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Madreporian \Mad`re*po"ri*an\, Madreporic \Mad`re*po"ric\, a.
   (Zo["o]l.)
   Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.

   {Madreporic plate} (Zo["o]l.), a perforated plate in
      echinoderms, through which water is admitted to the
      ambulacral tubes; -- called also {madreporic tubercule}.