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Definition of Foraminifera
1. Noun. Foraminifers.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Rhizopoda, Subclass Rhizopoda
Member holonyms: Foram, Foraminifer, Family Globigerinidae, Globigerinidae, Genus Globigerina, Family Nummulitidae, Nummulitidae
Definition of Foraminifera
1. n. pl. An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.
Definition of Foraminifera
1. Noun. A large group of amoeboid protists, of the order ''Foraminifera'', that are mostly marine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foraminifera
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Medical Definition of Foraminifera
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foraminifera
Literary usage of Foraminifera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1900)
"... organisms the casts fall out, leaving the walls of the tests adhering to the
matrix. Besides foraminifera there are some obscure examples of polyzoa. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1870)
"Nota on the foraminifera of Mineral Veins and the adjacent Strata. ... THE following "
notes " on the foraminifera obtained by Mr. Charles Moore in his ..."
3. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"Researches on the foraminifera—Supplemental Memoir. ... affords of the validity
of the principles on which my Classification of the foraminifera is founded. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"With the hope of throwing light on the life history of the foraminifera, a large
number of specimens of this species have been examined. ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"As these foraminifera are fossil and mostly siliceous they will not "float," bnt
the washed material must after drying be examined under the Microscope and ..."
6. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"... and they were distinguished from the ordinary Cephalopods that possess a single
siphon passing from chamber to chamber, by the designation foraminifera, ..."
7. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1876)
"The extreme variability of foraminifera, of both great groups ... so evident and
so close that all the foraminifera might be placed in the close union of a ..."
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