"foraminifer" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌfɒɹəˈmɪnɪfə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌfɔɹəˈmɪnəfɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-foraminifer.wav Forms: foraminifers [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French foraminifère (“foraminifer, foraminifera”), from French Foraminifères, coined by the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny (1802–1857) in an 1826 article. Foraminifère is derived from Latin forāmina (“apertures, holes”) + -fer (“-bearing”). Etymology templates: {{taxlink|Ammonia beccarii|species}} Ammonia beccarii, {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰerH-|*-mn̥|*bʰer-|id=pierce}}, {{bor|en|fr|foraminifère|t=foraminifer, foraminifera}} French foraminifère (“foraminifer, foraminifera”), {{der|en|fr|Foraminifères}} French Foraminifères, {{der|en|la|forāmina|t=apertures, holes}} Latin forāmina (“apertures, holes”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} foraminifer (plural foraminifers)
  1. Any of a large group of aquatic amoeboid protists of the subphylum Foraminifera, characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things is used for catching food, often with a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude. Wikipedia link: Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Alcide d’Orbigny, Annales des sciences naturelles, Jean Victor Audouin, Jean-Baptiste Dumas Categories (lifeform): Foraminifera Synonyms: foram, foraminifera, foraminiferan, foraminiferid, foraminiferon [nonstandard, obsolete], foraminiferum Derived forms: foram, foraminiferal, foraminiferivore, foraminiferivorous, foraminiferological, foraminiferologist, foraminiferology, foraminiferous Related terms: foramen, Foraminifera, foraminiferan, foraminiferid, foraminiferon, foraminiferum Translations (aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera): foraminifero (Basque), фарамініферы (faraminifjery) (Belarusian), фораминифери (foraminiferi) (Bulgarian), 有孔蟲 (Chinese Mandarin), 有孔虫 (yǒukǒngchóng) (Chinese Mandarin), dírkonošec [masculine] (Czech), dírkonožec [masculine] (Czech), foraminifero (Esperanto), huokoseläin (Finnish), foraminifère [masculine] (French), Foraminifere [feminine] (German), foraminifero [masculine] (Italian), 有孔虫 (yūkōchū) (alt: ゆうこうちゅう) (Japanese), 유공충 (yugongchung) (Korean), 유공충아문 (yugongchung'amun) (Korean), foraminífero [masculine] (Portuguese), foraminifer (Romanian), фораминифе́ра (foraminiféra) [feminine] (Russian), ды́рочник (dýročnik) [masculine] (Russian), foraminífero [masculine] (Spanish)

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          "text": "The species of foraminifer which composes, almost to the exclusion of all others, the deep Atlantic mud, is called Globigerina. […] The natural home of the foraminifers appears to be in the deeper parts of the ocean, commencing where the regular inhabitants of limited depths terminate.",
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          "text": "The Heterostegina-bed at Malta is not without smaller Foraminifers (some of which we can identify,—as the Globigerina bulloides, Truncatulina lobatula, &c.), but the matrix is too stubborn to yield all its treasures.",
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          "text": "From a palæontological point of view the only part of a Foraminifer with which we have to deal is the shell or \"test,\" […] Each bud of the compound Foraminifer is surrounded by its own shell, so that the whole comes to be composed of a number of chambers, each containing a mass of sarcode.",
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          "text": "The environmental significance of foraminifer abundance variations in Arctic cores is controversial[…]. One interpretation concludes that foraminifer-rich intervals represent interglacial conditions reflecting seasonally absent or reduced ice cover leading to increased productivity; intervals barren or nearly barren of foraminifers are considered to represent glacial conditions with thicker ice cover and lower productivity[…].",
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        "en:Foraminifera"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1859 October, “Art. V.—Physical Geography of the Atlantic Ocean.”, in The Westminster Review, American edition, volume LXXII, number CXLII, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott & Co., […], →OCLC, page 263:",
          "text": "The species of foraminifer which composes, almost to the exclusion of all others, the deep Atlantic mud, is called Globigerina. […] The natural home of the foraminifers appears to be in the deeper parts of the ocean, commencing where the regular inhabitants of limited depths terminate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860 January 4, T[homas] Rupert Jones, W[illiam] K[itchen] Parker, “3. On the Rhizopodal Fauna of the Mediterranean, Compared with that of the Italian and Some Other Tertiary Deposits.”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume XVI, part I (Proceedings of the Geological Society), London: Longmans, Green, Longmans, and Roberts […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 300:",
          "text": "The Heterostegina-bed at Malta is not without smaller Foraminifers (some of which we can identify,—as the Globigerina bulloides, Truncatulina lobatula, &c.), but the matrix is too stubborn to yield all its treasures.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, “Sub-kingdom I.—Protozoa.”, in A Manual of Palæontology for the Use of Students […], 3rd edition, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part II, page 61:",
          "text": "From a palæontological point of view the only part of a Foraminifer with which we have to deal is the shell or \"test,\" […] Each bud of the compound Foraminifer is surrounded by its own shell, so that the whole comes to be composed of a number of chambers, each containing a mass of sarcode.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Richard Z. Poore, Scott E. Ishman, R. Lawrence Phillips, David H. McNeil, “Paleoceanography”, in Quaternary Stratigraphy and Paleoceanography of the Canada Basin, Western Arctic Ocean […] (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin; 2080), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:",
          "text": "The environmental significance of foraminifer abundance variations in Arctic cores is controversial[…]. One interpretation concludes that foraminifer-rich intervals represent interglacial conditions reflecting seasonally absent or reduced ice cover leading to increased productivity; intervals barren or nearly barren of foraminifers are considered to represent glacial conditions with thicker ice cover and lower productivity[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Peter A. Scholle, “Grains: Skeletal Fragments: Foraminifers”, in A Color Guide to the Petrography of Carbonate Rocks: Grains, Textures, Porosity, Diagenesis (AAPG Memoir; 77), Tulsa, Okla.: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →ISBN, page 37:",
          "text": "A cross-section through a single agglutinated foraminifer – in this case, one that selected both carbonate and non-carbonate grains to build its test. These foraminifers are recognizable by the chamber-shaped grain arrangements rather than the otherwise random distribution of grains in the rest of the rock.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Ralf Schiebel, Christoph Hemleben, “Nutrition, Symbionts, and Predators”, in Planktic Foraminifers in the Modern Ocean, 2nd edition, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, section 4.6 (Predation), page 154, column 1:",
          "text": "One of the most frequently asked questions concerns the predators of planktic foraminifers. Whereas a large variety of predators of benthic foraminifers have been identified, the nature of planktic foraminifer predators is largely enigmatic.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Any of a large group of aquatic amoeboid protists of the subphylum Foraminifera, characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things is used for catching food, often with a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude."
      ],
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          "subphylum"
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          "streaming",
          "streaming#Adjective"
        ],
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          "granular",
          "granular"
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        [
          "ectoplasm",
          "ectoplasm"
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          "used",
          "use#Verb"
        ],
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          "catch#Verb"
        ],
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          "food",
          "food"
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          "calcareous",
          "calcareous"
        ],
        [
          "shell",
          "shell#Noun"
        ],
        [
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          "hole#Noun"
        ],
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          "pseudopod",
          "pseudopod"
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          "protrude"
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        {
          "word": "foram"
        },
        {
          "word": "foraminifera"
        },
        {
          "word": "foraminiferan"
        },
        {
          "word": "foraminiferid"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "nonstandard",
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "foraminiferon"
        },
        {
          "word": "foraminiferum"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart",
        "Alcide d’Orbigny",
        "Annales des sciences naturelles",
        "Jean Victor Audouin",
        "Jean-Baptiste Dumas"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɒɹəˈmɪnɪfə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɔɹəˈmɪnəfɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "foraminifero"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "faraminifjery",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "фарамініферы"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "foraminiferi",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "фораминифери"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "有孔蟲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǒukǒngchóng",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "有孔虫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dírkonošec"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dírkonožec"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "foraminifero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "huokoseläin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "foraminifère"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Foraminifere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "foraminifero"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ゆうこうちゅう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yūkōchū",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "有孔虫"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yugongchung",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "유공충"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yugongchung'amun",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "유공충아문"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "foraminífero"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "word": "foraminifer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "foraminiféra",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фораминифе́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dýročnik",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ды́рочник"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "aquatic amoeboid protist of the subphylum Foraminifera",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "foraminífero"
    }
  ],
  "word": "foraminifer"
}

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