madreporal adjective2 •Characteristic of or associated with reef coral of genus Madrepora; madreporic.The instrument is about twenty feet above sea level, and is built on ground composed of hard madreporal rock. — 1914 •Pertaining to a sieve-like plate in echinoderms, which admits water into the ambulacral tubes;Between these vascular rings there is a long muscular heart, which, united to the calcareous pouch or cord, extends from the madreporal plate to the mouth. — 1874