globothalamean

English

Etymology

From translingual Globothalamea +‎ -an, further from Latin globus (“globe, sphere”) +‎ Ancient Greek θᾰ́λᾰμος (thắlămos, “inner room, chamber”) +‎ translingual -ea (abstract-noun suffix).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: glō′-bō-thă′-lə-mā′-ən
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɡloʊ.boʊˌθæ.ləˈmeɪ.ən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪən

Adjective

globothalamean (comparative more globothalamean, superlative most globothalamean)

  1. (microbiology, taxonomy) Relating to or characteristic of the foraminifers of the class Globothalamea, especially in relation to their globular chambers which characterize their shells. [from 2010s]
    Hypernyms: foraminiferan, foraminiferous
    globothalamean foraminifera
    • 2017 April, Jarosław Tyszka, Ulf Bickmeyer, Jelle Bijma, Jan Goleń, Markus Raitzsch, Karina Kaczmarek, Paweł Topa, “Morphogenesis of chamber formation in globothalamean Foraminifera”, in Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication No. 23‎[1], Smolenice, Slovakia, page 86:
      Globothalamean foraminifera (Pawlowski et al., 2013) colonized nearly all marine paleoenvironments, including benthic and planktonic habitats.

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Noun

globothalamean (plural globothalameans)

  1. (microbiology, taxonomy) Any foraminifer of the class Globothalamea, differentiated by their globular shell chambers. [from 2010s]
    Hypernym: foraminifer
    • 2019, Zofia Dubicka, “Chamber arrangement versus wall structure in the high-rank phylogenetic classification of Foraminifera”, in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica‎[2]:
      Globothalameans possess globular chambers and minimal distances between successive apertures; tubothalameans possess tubular chambers and maximal distances between apertures; lagenids, like Tubothalamea, are characterised by maximal distances between apertures (related with terminal chamber formation), but their chambers are rather globular.
    • 2020 September 25, Christopher Taylor, “The Glandulinid Position”, in Catalogue of Organisms‎[3]:
      In both tubothalameans and globothalameans, the chambers more or less coil around the proloculus to form a spiral.

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