Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of the chiefly marine protozoans of the order Foraminifera, characteristically having a calcareous shell with perforations through which numerous pseudopods protrude.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Foraminifera.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several large marine protozoans, of the subphylum Foraminifera, that have a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the Foraminifera.
WordNet 3.0
- n. marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude
Etymologies
- From New Latin Forāminifera, order name : Latin forāmen, forāmin-, an opening + Latin -fer, -fer.
Examples
“Relative abundance variations of the planktic foraminifer Globigerinoides sacculifer and àŽàⲱ8O measured G. ruber white variety in core PBBC1 plotted against calibrated years.”
“(H) Abundances of the foraminifer Globigerina bulloides in Cariaco Basin sediments are higher during glacial advances indicating stronger trade winds (20).”
“Steve M., some months back I linked to a California Current foraminifer study that showed things as fairly flat there through the MWP and LIA.”
“The biological response to the monsoonal activity in the surface water column is preserved as increased abundance of the planktic foraminifer Globigerina bulloides…Advantages of this proxy are (1) its unique association with the summer monsoon (G. bulloides has a subpolar habitat and would be absent in the tropics except for wind-driven upwelling), (2) linear correlation with the surface cooling due to upwelling, apparently unbiased by other influences”
“It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed.”
Autobiography and Selected Essays
“These micro-organisms are found in just a few pieces of amber among the thousands that have been studied, but show a remarkable diversity: unicellular algae, mainly diatoms found in large numbers, traces of animal plankton, such as radiolaria and a foraminifer, spiny skeletons of sponges and of echinoderms.”
“I don’t know a whole lot about the fineness of the foraminifer paleo record, but note that something like the Holocene maximum which lasted many centuries would be far more obvious in the record than the much shorter MWP.”
“a foraminifer, or a fresh-water polype is capable of feeling; and, in spite of Shakspere, I have doubts about the great sensitiveness of the”
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
“18O record of the shells of the benthic foraminifer”
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