"foram" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of foraminifer.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "foram (plural forams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Foraminifera",
          "orig": "en:Foraminifera",
          "parents": [
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 291:",
          "text": "Some forams allow single-celled algae to lodge on the surface of their bodies, rather as tropical coral do.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A foraminifer."
      ],
      "id": "en-foram-en-noun-i56vAmmA",
      "links": [
        [
          "foraminifer",
          "foraminifer"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "foram"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foram"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of foraminifer.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "foram (plural forams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Foraminifera"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 291:",
          "text": "Some forams allow single-celled algae to lodge on the surface of their bodies, rather as tropical coral do.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A foraminifer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "foraminifer",
          "foraminifer"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "foram"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foram"
}