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foraminiferan
n. (context zoology palaeontology English) An organism of the phylum ''Foraminifera''; a foraminifer.
Usage examples of "foraminiferan".
Eventually all the tiny foraminiferans and coccoliths and so on die and fall to the bottom of the sea, where they are compressed into limestone.
Among plankton, some species were practically wiped out—92 percent of foraminiferans, for instance—while other organisms like diatoms, designed to a similar plan and living alongside, were comparatively unscathed.