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foraminifer
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French foraminifère (“foraminifer”), from French Foraminifères coined by the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny (1802–1857) in an 1826 article. Foraminifère is derived from Latin for?mina (“apertures, holes”) + -ifer (a variant of -fer (suffix meaning ‘bearing, carrying’), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear, carry”)), that is, “having holes”. For?mina is the plural of for?men (“aperture or opening produced by boring; hole”), from for? (“to bore, pierce”) (from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (“to pierce; to strike”)) + -men (suffix forming neuter nouns of the third declension).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f????m?n?f?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f????m?n?f?/
- Hyphenation: for?a?min?if?er
Noun
foraminifer (plural foraminifers)
- 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.
- Synonyms: foram, foraminifera, foraminiferan, foraminiferid, foraminiferon, (both obsolete, now nonstandard) foraminiferum
Usage notes
It has been suggested it is acceptable to use either foraminifer (plural foraminifers) or foraminifera (plural foraminifera or foraminiferas) as long as one form of the word and its plural(s) are used consistently throughout a text.
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Related terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- foraminifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Foraminifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Foraminifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- foraminifer at OneLook Dictionary Search
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foram
English
Etymology
Shortening of foraminifer.
Noun
foram (plural forams)
- A foraminifer.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- forão (obsolete)
- foraõ (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /?fo.???w?/
Verb
foram
- Third-person plural (eles, elas, also used with vocês?) preterite indicative of ser
- Third-person plural (eles, elas, also used with vocês?) pluperfect indicative of ser
- Third-person plural (eles, elas, also used with vocês?) preterite indicative of ir
- Third-person plural (eles, elas, also used with vocês?) pluperfect indicative of ir
foram From the web:
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