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Amblypoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Belemnite
noun · 78% connection
A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Blade
noun · 78% connection
Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Bomb
noun · 78% connection
A great noise; a hollow sound.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Brad
noun · 78% connection
A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat ci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Chasuble
noun · 78% connection
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Coryphodon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Flat
superl. · 78% connection
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Globigerina
noun · 78% connection
A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Half-deck
noun · 78% connection
A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Hipparion
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Imperforata
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Lagenian
adjective · 78% connection
Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Large
superl. · 78% connection
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Leaf
noun · 78% connection
A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elabora…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Miliola
noun · 78% connection
A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Number
noun · 78% connection
That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
Orbitolites
noun · 78% connection
A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, tertiary, foraminifera, thin.
