nullipora

[Lat. null us =not any, none, and por us a pa age, a channel. The name was given to distinguish them when they were believed to be compound animals from genuine zoophytes, which had pores or cavities.] Bot.: Nullipore; a synonym of Me lobes i a, a genus of Algals, order Ceramiaceæ, sub-order Rhodomelese. [NULLIPORE.] nŭl-li-pöre, s. [NULLIPORA.] 1. Bot. (pl.): ): The same as CORALLINES. [CORAL LINACEE. 2. Palæobot .: The Nullipores can form extensive accumulations of lime, as in the Leitha Kalk, a Tertiary stratum in Austria, largely made up of calcareous concretions. Mr. Carter thinks that coccoliths are nullipores. If so, they came into existence in early paleozoic times; if not, they do not certainly appear before the Tertiary. nul-11-pör-e-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. nullipor (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ.] Bot .: A tribe of Corallinacese. Corallines having the frond crustaceous or foliaceous, opaque, not articulated. Type Me lobes i a. nul-11-tỹ, s. [Fr. null ité, from Low Lat. null i Sp. nulidad; Ital. null ità.] tatem , acous of null it as , from Lat. null us =none; 1. The quality or state of being null and void; want of validity, force, or efficacy. "Having thus shown the nullity of this argument."South: Sermons, vol. vii. ser. 1. 2. That which is null and void; an invalid act. "The sentence was treated by the majority of the Convention as a nullity." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii. *3. Want of existence; non-existence. "It is that menacing intimation of nullity or not being."-P. Holland : Plutarch , p. 497. †nŭl-līze, v. t. [English null ; -ize.] To make nothing; to waste or do away with. "A lowly Fortune is of all despised, A lofty one, of itself, nullized." Sylvester: Honor's Farewell , 82.