Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MAD'RE-PO-RITE
MAD'RE-PO-RITE, n.
A name given to certain petrified bones found in Normandy, in France, belonging to a cetaceous fish or to a species of crocodile. These bones contain many little brown lines in zigzag, resembling entangled threads. They have none of the properties of madrepore. Dict. Nat. Hist.
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