foraminifer

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foraminifer noun

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.

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foram foraminifera foraminiferivore foraminiferum foraminiferologist amphisteginid calcarinid fusulinoidean globorotaliid peneroplid elphidiid globigerinid staffellid nonion orbitoid planulinid

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