Foraminiferum

Quick meaning: Foraminiferum is a noun meaning (obsolete, now nonstandard) Synonym of foraminifer.

Meaning

(obsolete, now nonstandard) Synonym of foraminifer.

Example Sentences

Movements of intracellular particles along the lamellipodium formed by the foraminiferum Allogromia laticollaris.

Foraminifera are single-cell microcrustaceans with a calcareous shell, which is a shell made of calcium carbonate. When a foraminiferum dies, its shell sinks onto the seabed.

The third is a conglomerate of very minute tuff-grains, each enveloping a nucleus which proved on examination to be either a foraminiferum, a mollusk or, more rarely, a rounded particle of semi-transparent quartz.

For of course, if this foraminiferum, living in a medium of fine chalk-grains, used those chalk-grains for the construction of its shell, it acquires a calcareous habitus, especially, after the diagnetic processes, it was subject to, during its fossilisation.

Word Forms

• foraminifera

Synonyms for foraminiferum

Depending on context, synonyms include foraminifer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foraminifera, foram, foraminifer, foraminiferologist, foraminiferivore, fusulinoidean.

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