Meanings
adjectivereteporiform (not comparable)
- not comparableForming colonies that are erect and fenestrate.
The cellariiform and reteporiform types are most dominant in a number of species and individuals.
1974, Tōhoku Daigaku, Science Reports: (Geology). Second series (volumes 45-46, page 95)1 more example
Tubuliporidæ in which the zoarium is erect and foliaceous. (These may be simple fronds; or may be split up into multifid segments; or may grow into hemispherical masses by the crumpling of the fronds; or may be cylindrical or reteporiform.)
1896, John W. Gregory, Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geology, British Museum, page 117
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