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foraminiferon

foraminiferon noun: synonym of foraminifer.

Noun

foraminiferon (plural foraminifera or foraminiferons)

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete) Synonym of foraminifer.
    • In this process in foraminifera the nuclear fragmentation which Hertwig described in Actinosphaerium, and which Schaudinn identified with “Chromidien”-formation, is evidently the same thing as these processes which Carter and Wallich observed long ago and vaguely interpreted as reproductive...1833, The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, page 11
    • Bailey and Ehrenberg, however, having detected fresh sarcode in the cavities of numerous foraminiferons shells procured from deep-sea bottoms, the one was led to suspect, and the other to conclude, that their animals actually lived in the depth which yielded them.1864 January, William King, “Natural-History Phenomena of the Atlantic Ocean (From Fraser’s Magazine)”, in W[alter] H[illiard] Bidwell, editor, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science...
    Synonyms:
    foraminifer

Examples of foraminiferon in a sentence

  • Specimen of Coral-rock, showing the new Arenaceous Foraminiferon Haddonia torresiensis, occurring in association with a Polytrema.1898, The Journal of the Linnean Society, page 453:
  • A well-distributed Cretaceous foraminiferon.[…]Four specimens of this interesting foraminiferon were found in the Cambridge Greensand of Swaffham,[…]1899, Annals & Magazine of Natural History, pages 56 and 58:

Synonyms of foraminiferon

Forms of foraminiferon

pluralforaminifera
pluralforaminiferons

Questions about foraminiferon

What does foraminiferon mean?
Foraminiferon means synonym of foraminifer.
How do you use foraminiferon in a sentence?
Specimen of Coral-rock, showing the new Arenaceous Foraminiferon Haddonia torresiensis, occurring in association with a Polytrema.
What part of speech is foraminiferon?
Foraminiferon is a noun.
What is the plural of foraminiferon?
The plural of foraminiferon is foraminifera.

Words near foraminiferon in the dictionary

  1. foraminiferivorous
  2. foraminiferological
  3. foraminiferologist
  4. foraminiferologists
  5. foraminiferology
  6. foraminiferon
  7. foraminiferons
  8. foraminiferous
  9. foraminifers
  10. foraminiferum
  11. foraminoplasty

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