English Dictionary

foraminifer

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌfɒɹəˈmɪnɪfə/

名詞

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.

日本語の意味

水中に生息するアメーバ様の原生動物で、粗い顆粒状の外原生質（偽足）を流出させ、それを用いて食物を捕らえます。通常、複数の穴を有するカルシウム質の殻に覆われています。

The marine biologist carefully examined a foraminifer under the microscope to study its intricate calcareous shell and streaming pseudopodia.

海洋生物学者は、その複雑な炭酸カルシウム製の殻と流れる仮足を調べるため、有孔虫を顕微鏡で注意深く観察した。

意味（1）

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.

The species of foraminifer which composes, almost to the exclusion of all others, the deep Atlantic mud, is called Globigerina. […] The natural home of the foraminifers appears to be in the deeper parts of the ocean, commencing where the regular inhabitants of limited depths terminate.

foraminifers （ plural ）