Crossword clues for globigerina
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Globigerina \Glo*big`e*ri"na\, n.; pl. Globigerin[ae]. [NL., fr. L. globus a round body + gerere to bear.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.
WordNet
n. marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes
[also: globigerinae (pl)]
Wikipedia
Globigerina is a genus of planktonic Foraminifera that have populated the world's oceans since the Late Eocene.
Usage examples of "globigerina".
Our vitrine helmets prevented our hearing the thud, but it must have been prodigious when the huge body struck the floor of the ocean, and we saw the globigerina ooze fly upwards as the mud splashes when a heavy stone is hurled into it.
Under the layer of globigerina ooze which had enabled scientists to say that there had been ocean here for about a hundred thousand years, there was granite.
They may call it globigerina ooze or radiolarian ooze, but it's usually ooze.