Foraminifera

Quick meaning: Foraminifera is a noun meaning plural of foraminiferon.

Meaning

plural of foraminiferon.

More Meanings

1. plural of foraminiferum
2. Synonym of foraminifer (“any of a large group of aquatic amoeboid protists of the subphylum Foraminifera, characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things is used for catching food, often with a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude”).

Example Sentences

Backboneless animals precede those with backbones and the minute foraminifera—bits of jelly in shells—species with a more complex organisation.

By the slow accumulation of dead shells, corals, &c., cemented by the smaller tests of foraminifera, the Coralline Crag eventually attained a thickness of fifty feet.

Careful preparation of a fragment of chalk usually brings to light remains, sometimes well preserved, of foraminifera (Rotalina ornata, Cristellaria rotulata, Globigerina bulloides).

This elegant Foraminifera has long been one of the best known of recent species; in its young state it is one of the most abundant organisms in the Cuban sand: in this immature form it appears a Foraminifera of the ordinary spiral type; […]

Word Forms

• foraminiferas

Synonyms for foraminifera

Depending on context, synonyms include foraminifer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include planktonic, benthonic, foraminifers, foraminifer, foraminiferum, foram.

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