Definition of Order Foraminifera

1. Noun. Foraminifers.

Exact synonyms: Foraminifera
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Rhizopoda, Subclass Rhizopoda
Member holonyms: Foram, Foraminifer, Family Globigerinidae, Globigerinidae, Genus Globigerina, Family Nummulitidae, Nummulitidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Foraminifera

order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera
order Equisetales
order Ericales
order Erysiphales
order Eubacteriales
order Eubryales
order Euphausiacea
order Eurotiales
order Eurypterida
order Exocycloida
order Fagales
order Falconiformes
order Filicales
order Foraminifera (current term)
order Fucales
order Gadiformes
order Galliformes
order Ganoidei
order Gaviiformes
order Gentianales
order Geophilomorpha
order Geraniales
order Ginkgoales
order Gnetales
order Graminales
order Gregarinida
order Gruiformes
order Guttiferales

Literary usage of Order Foraminifera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"Depth, 30 and 40 feet; ' brown clay and stones '; mud, 67 per cent.; sand, 12 per cent.; gravel, 21 per cent. RHIZOPODA. Order FORAMINIFERA. ..."

2. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"Ehrenberg. II. Order: Heliozoa. Haekel. III. Order: Radiolaria. Johannes Muller. IV. Order: Foraminifera. d'Orbigny. ..."

3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1899)
"... cilindrica was a member of the animal sub-kingdom Protozoa, class Rhizopoda, order Foraminifera, ..."

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