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.

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• 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.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• 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.
• 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.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.