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Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora. Madreporic plate (Zoöl.), a perforated plate in echinoderms, through which water is admitted to the ambulacral tubes; -- called also madreporic tubercule.

Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.

The madreporic plate of echinoderms.

A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes; especially:

ugh simple, thought. Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

A madrigalist.

A composer of madrigals.

Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. [S. America]

aving a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroña apples. [Written also madroño.]

aving a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroña apples. [Written also madroño.]

A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.

A bark canoe used by the Africans.

ve brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

notice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

k by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon. I should not animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden.