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||Ma`drague" (?), n. [R.] A large
fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean;
also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

Ma"dre*perl (?), n. [It.
madreperla.] Mother-of-pearl.

||Mad`re*po"ra (măd`r&esl;*pō"r&adot;),
n. [NL. See Madrepore.] (Zoöl.)
A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes
than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly
branched. -- Mad`re*po"ral (#),
a.

||Mad`re*po*ra"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL.
See Madrepore.] (Zoöl.) An extensive division
of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals.
See Illust. of Anthozoa. --
Mad`re*po*ra"ri*an (#), a. & n.

Mad"re*pore (?), n. [F.
madrepore, perh. fr. madré spotted, fr. OF.
madre, mazre, a kind of knotty wood with brown spots,
fr. OHG. masar a knot, grain, or vein in wood, a speck, G.


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