Definition of Globigerinidae

1. Noun. A family of protoctists.

Exact synonyms: Family Globigerinidae
Generic synonyms: Protoctist Family
Group relationships: Foraminifera, Order Foraminifera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Globigerinidae

Glifada
Glinka
Gliridae
Glis
Glis glis
Glisson
Glisson's capsule
Glisson's cirrhosis
Glisson's sphincter
Glittertind
Gliwice
Gln
Global Positioning System
Globicephala
Globicephala melaena
Globigerinidae (current term)
Globish
Globocephalus
Glock
Gloger's rule
Gloomy Gus
Gloria
Gloria May Josephine Svensson
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Swanson
Gloriosa superba
Glorious Revolution
Glory of Heaven
Glosa
Glossic

Literary usage of Globigerinidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... different sizes in the same test, eg in Orbulina and some other Globigerinidae, often laminated and in thin tests or sections transparent or hyaline. ..."

2. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1901)
"Family Globigerinidae. Genus GI. ... In present oceans this species of Globigerina is the commonest of all the Globigerinidae. In temperate zones it exists ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"Globigerinidae : test vitreous, perforate ; chambers few, dilated, and arranged in a flat or conical spiral, usually with a crescentic ..."

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