Hypertext Webster Gateway: "palus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Palus \Pa"lus\, n.; pl. {Pali}. [L., a stake.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of several upright slender calcareous processes which
surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
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