Usage examples (30)

• They are the shells of animals called Foraminifera, because the shells of some of them are full of holes, through which they put out tiny arms.
• 'Foraminifera', which Ehrenberg has recently described, seem to indicate the existence at that remote period of forms singularly like those which now exist.
• In the 1950s, the Foraminifera, along with other microscopic organisms "protozoa", were considered to be animals.
• "You may call me Foraminifera 9," I directed, since I wished to be incognito, as you put it, and we proceeded along the "street."