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Definition of Foraminifers
1. foraminifer [n] - See also: foraminifer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foraminifers
Literary usage of Foraminifers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Natural History, for the Use of Travellers: Being a Description by Arthur Adams, William Balfour Baikie, Charles Barron (1854)
"... with the cells placed end to end in a single series in a straight or slightly
curved form. 2. FAMILY. — Alternating-foraminifers (Textu- ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1841)
"... of the foraminifers; but the present occasion not admitting such an extension,
let us pass to the foraminifers of the white chalk of the Paris basin. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Calcareous foraminifers are almost exclusively thick-shelled species, some of
which are corroded. Embryonic thin- walled forms generally constitute 1 to 2 ..."
4. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Ninetheenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"In 1711 JB Beccari discovered the first small fossil foraminifers in the ...
In 1791 Soldani published his excellent work on the foraminifers from the ..."
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