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Foraminifera

Definition: Foraminifera

Foraminifera

Noun

1. Foraminifers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Foraminifera" was first used: 1835. (references)

Etymology: Foraminifera \Fo*ram`i*nif"e*ra\, plural noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression foramen, -aminis, foramen ferre to bear.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: Foraminifera

DomainDefinitions

Biology & Biotechnology

Jelly-like animals common in the surface waters of the sea; after death their limy tests sometimes sink down to form oozes on the ocean floor. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Plural of foraminifer. (references)

Science

A protozoan made usually of calcite and found in the sea. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Foraminifera

Synonym: order Foraminifera (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Foraminifera

English words defined with "Foraminifera": EozoonForaminiferousImperforataLagenianMiliola, MonothalamaNummulitesOrbitolites, Orbulina, order ForaminiferaParkeria, Perforata, Polythalamia, Polythalamous, PorcellaneousReticularia, Rock builderThalamophora. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Foraminifera": globigerina ooze. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Foraminifera

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cenozoic Reef Biofacies: Tertiary Larger Foraminifera and Scleractinian Corals from Chiaoas, Mexico (reference)

  • Monitoring in Coastal Environments Using Foraminifera and Thecamoebian Indicators (reference)

  • Paleobase: Deep Sea Benthic Foraminifera (reference)

  • Paleoecology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography and Taxonomy of Agglutinated Foraminifera (NATO Asi Series. Series C: Mathematical and Physical Scie) (reference)

  • Systematic Index of Recent and Pleistocene Planktonic Foraminifera (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Foraminifera

Illustrations:
Foraminifera

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Photo Album: Foraminifera

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Figure 32 (left). Phleger corer devised by Fred B. Phleger of Scripps about 1951 for the study of the Foraminifera in deep water bottom samples. Phleger , previously of Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, used a similar device on the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition. The instrument on the right is attributed to Kullenberg (Figure 34). Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Foraminifera

"Foraminifera" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Foraminifera" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%12101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Foraminifera

Expression using "Foraminifera": order Foraminifera. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Foraminifera

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

foraminifera

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Modern Translations: Foraminifera

Language Translations for "Foraminifera"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

foraminiferer. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

foraminiferen. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

huokoseläimet. (various references)

   

French

  

foraminifères. (various references)

   

German

  

Foraminiferen, Kammerlinge. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τρηματοφόρα. (various references)

   

Italian

  

foraminifere. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oraminiferafay

   

Spanish

  

foramineferos. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

foraminiferer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Foraminifera

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

foramen, Granuloreticulosia. (various references)

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Derivations: Foraminifera

Derivations

Words beginning with "Foraminifera": foraminiferal, foraminiferan, foraminiferans. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Foraminifera"

Words rhyming with "Foraminifera" (pronounced 'Fo*ram`i*nif"e*ra'): Abra, Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Acetabulifera, Agora, Agouara, Alhambra, Almagra, Amphineura, Amphora, Anaphora, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Aplacophora, Appoggiatura, Aptera, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Barbara, Basommatophora, Brachelytra, Brachyptera, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Calyptra, Camara, Camorra, Capibara, Capra, Capybara, Caracara, Carnivora, Cathedra, Cephalophora, Cephaloptera, Cesura, Chara, Cheiroptera, Chelicera, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Foraminifera

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-f-i-i-m-n-o-r-r"

-1 letter: foraminifer.

-4 letters: aeriform, affirmer, airframe, foramina, inferior, informer, reaffirm, reinform, reniform.

-5 letters: affaire, airfare, amorini, armoire, fanfare, fermion, firearm, fireman, foamier, foramen, forearm, foreman, foreran, mariner, marrano, miffier, moraine, rainier, refrain, rimfire, romaine.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-f-i-i-m-n-o-r-r"
 

+1 letter: foraminiferal, foraminiferan, reaffirmation.

 

+2 letters: foraminiferans, reaffirmations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Foraminifera


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 6F 72 61 6D 69 6E 69 66 65 72 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006F 0072 0061 006D 0069 006E 0069 0066 0065 0072 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

408184677975807572718467

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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