foraminifer

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin foramen (“hole”) + -ifer (“bearing”).

Noun

foraminifer (plural foraminifers)

1. 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: foraminifero m
• Portuguese: foraminífero m
• Spanish: foraminífero m

Further reading

• “foraminifer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.