English-Spanish translations for foraminifer

• foraminífero

Definition of foraminifer

• Any of several large 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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