foraminifer

English

Etymology

From Latin foramen (“hole”) + -ifer (“bearing”).

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.

Synonyms

(amoebid protist): foram

Translations

any protist of the taxon Foraminifera

Czech: dírkonošec (cs) m, dírkonožec (cs) m
Finnish: huokoseläin
French: foraminifère (fr) m
German: Foraminifere f

Italian: foraminifero m
Portuguese: foraminífero m
Spanish: foraminífero m

Further reading

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