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Definition of Foraminifer
1. Noun. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
Generic synonyms: Rhizopod, Rhizopodan
Group relationships: Foraminifera, Order Foraminifera
Specialized synonyms: Globigerina, Nummulite
Definition of Foraminifer
1. n. One of the Foraminifera.
Definition of Foraminifer
1. Noun. Any of several large marine protozoans, of the subphylum Foraminifera, that have a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foraminifer
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Medical Definition of Foraminifer
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Literary usage of Foraminifer
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1. The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution by Edward Clodd (1888)
"foraminifer, Globigerina bulloides, magnified seventy diameters. This form is
found floating in tropical and temperate seas. theirs, forming vast chalk and ..."
2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"The body of every foraminifer being encased within a shell is quite incapable of
those ... The foraminifer neither lays hold of its food, nor swallows, ..."
3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"This theory appears to me to be founded on a misconception of the real mode of
growth of the foraminifer. The body of the foraminifer, like that of the ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"... Carpenter, and Professor Rupert Jones, that the Canadian serpentine is of
organic origin, the result of the growth of an extinct foraminifer, ..."
5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"Each bud of the Compound foraminifer is surrounded by its Own shell, ... A simple
foraminifer from the Pliocene strata (Sub- Apennine beds) of Italy. ..."
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