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stercome

stercome noun: an extracellular pellet of waste material produced by some groups of foraminiferans.

Noun

stercome (plural stercomes or stercomata)

  1. An extracellular pellet of waste material produced by some groups of foraminiferans.

Forms of stercome

pluralstercomes
pluralstercomata

Origin of stercome

Derived from the German Sterkom coined by Fritz Schaudinn in 1899 in "Untersuchungen über den Generationswechsel von Trichosphaerium sieboldii Schn". Abhandlungen der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1898: 44https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96964#page/462/mode/1up. Corresponds to Latin stercus (“dung”) + -ome.

Questions about stercome

What does stercome mean?
Stercome means an extracellular pellet of waste material produced by some groups of foraminiferans.
What part of speech is stercome?
Stercome is a noun.
What is the plural of stercome?
The plural of stercome is stercomes.

Words near stercome in the dictionary

  1. stercolith
  2. stercoliths
  3. stercomare
  4. stercomares
  5. stercomata
  6. stercome
  7. stercomes
  8. stercophagic
  9. stercophagous
  10. stercoraceous
  11. stercoral

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