foramn.
/ˈfɔːrəm/, U.S. /ˈfɔrəm/ Zoology and Palaeontology.
= foraminiferan n.
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1871 Geol. Mag. 8 91 Are wide sea-floors coated thickly with siliceous casts of small Forams?
1920 Science 3 Dec. 531/1 Since forams are generally small and abundant when present at all they stand a much better chance of preservation.
1956 R. Carrington Guide Earth Hist. (1958) x. 98 Foraminifers—or ‘forams’ as they are colloquially termed—are often present.
2006 D. H. Erwin Extinction ix. 240 The faster generation times of some microfossils such as forams allow more rapid evolution.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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