Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A name proposed by Hertwig (1819) for the foraminifers, or those rhizopods which possess a skeleton, or which are invested by a chitinous test or covered by silicious or arenaceous particles: thus equivalent to and conterminous with Foraminifera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Same as
foraminifera .
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On the other hand, many cells attain a considerable size, and run occasionally to several inches in diameter, as do certain kinds of rhizopods among the unicellular protists (such as the radiolaria and thalamophora).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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