Porites

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Porites \Po*ri"tes\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. po`ros a pore.] (Zool.)
     An important genus of reef-building corals having small
     twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species
     are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.
     [1913 Webster]