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Definition of Foram

1. Noun. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.

Definition of Foram

1. a marine rhizopod [n -S]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foram

foppishness foppishnesses fops for fora forage forage foraged forager foragers

forages forage fish foraging foraging habitat foralite foram (current term) foramen foramen foramens foramen apicis dentis

foramen bursae omentalis majoris foramen caecum linguae foramen caecum medullae oblongatae foramen caecum of frontal bone foramen caecum of tongue foramen caecum ossis frontalis foramen caecum posterius foramen costotransversarium foramen diaphragmatis sellae foramen epiploicum

Literary usage of Foram

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1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"foram. Brit. p. 93, pi. 7. fig. 203. Recent and Fossil. ... foram. p. 141 & p. 312, pi. 11. fig. 2. Lower Cretaceous. ..."

2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1876)
"... c, end, with terminal, flexuous, slit-like orifice. „ 12.—Brady's 'foram. Lias,' p. 112, pi. 3, f. 43. ... Brady's 'foram. Lias,' p. 110, pi. 2, f. 30. ..."

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