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foramen |
foramen magnum |
foramen of monro |
foraminated |
foraminifer |
foraminifera
| foraminiferous
| foraminous
| forasmuch
| foray
| foray into
foraminifera
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun foraminifera has 1 sense
- foraminifera(n = noun.animal) order foraminifera - foraminifers; Array is a kind of animal order
is a member of rhizopoda, subclass rhizopoda
CIDE DICTIONARY
foraminifera, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. foramen, -aminis, a foramen + ferre to bear.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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