Palus

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  • n. A vertical pillar along the inner septal margin of a coral.
  • n. A small plain (compared to mare) on the surface of a planet or satellite.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In corals, one of the laminæ or plate-like processes which extend upward from the bottom of a coralite to the calice; an extension from the inner edge of certain septa to or toward the columellar space or axis of the visceral chamber.
  • Word Usage
    "Then came the origin of the word pool -- from "palus," a marsh, as we were told, some dictionary attesting to the fact, and such a marsh might cover a large expanse."
    Form
    paliform    palar