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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."
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • 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 .
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • 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.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • VALVE-SHELL
    Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
  • FULL-FORMED
    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
  • 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.

 

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