foraminifers

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A form of foraminifer — Any of a large group of 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of foraminifer
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