f 4 o 1 r 1 a 1 m 3 i 1 n 1 i 1 f 4 e 1 r 1
11 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude
originBorrowed from French foraminifère (“foraminifer, foraminifera”), from French Foraminifères, coined by the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny (1802–1857) in an 1826 article. By surface analysis, Latin forāmen (“apertures, holes”, stem foramin-) + -fer (“bearing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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