foraminifer
Noun
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Noun
foraminifer (plural foraminifers)
- Any of several large 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.
- (amoebid protist) foram
- French: foraminifère
- German: Foraminifere
- Italian: foraminifero
- Portuguese: foraminífero
- Spanish: foraminífero
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