Crossword-Solution: FORAMINIFER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foraminifer | n. | One of the foraminifera. |
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| a unicellular microorganism with a calcareous shells through which pseudopods project | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects,
spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally
unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of
growth.
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Dawson of Montreal, who detected in it, by aid of the microscope, the distinct structure of a Rhizopod or Foraminifer.
MARTIN TRIUMPH OF CHRIST OVER DEATH (_Photo by_ LACROIX) CAVES OF LIGUGÉ NESS CLIFF KYNASTON'S CAVE CLIFF CASTLES AND CAVE DWELLINGS OF EUROPE CHAPTER I PREHISTORIC CAVE-DWELLERS In a vastly remote past, and for a vastly extended period, the mighty deep rolled over the surface of a world inform and void, depositing a sediment of its used up living tenants, the microscopic cases of foraminiferæ, sponges, sea-urchins, husks, and the cast limbs of crustaceans.
FOOTNOTES: [137] The nature of _Eozoon_, whether it be the remains of a foraminifer of unusual size and peculiar habit of growth, or merely a very exceptional arrangement of its constituent minerals, has been since the above-named date a fruitful subject of controversy.
This book treats entirely of the works and wonders effected by that "invisible brotherhood" of architects, the _animalculæ_, and shows how greatly the organic world is indebted to coral insects, _foraminiferæ_, polypi, and other cryptic beings, for its existence and progress.
Sir William Dawson's name is especially associated with the _Eozoon canadense_, which in 1864 he described as an organism having the structure of a foraminifer.