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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An order of Rhizopoda, belonging to the sub-kingdom Protozoa, furnished with a shell or test, simple or complex, usually perforated by pores (foramina), whence the name.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A large group of amoeboid protists, of the order Foraminifera, that are mostly marine.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun foraminifers

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