Word Meanings - FORAMINIFERA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.
Related words: (words related to FORAMINIFERA)
- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - CHAMBERING
Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - CHAMBERER
1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - CHAMBERED
Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORME
First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer. - PERFORATA
A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa. A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - UNITIVE
Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.