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ˈchamberlet
[f. chamber + dim. suffix -let.]
A minute chamber or cavity. spec. in Zool., a small chamber or division of the test of a foraminiferous animalcule. Hence ˈchamberletted a.
1862W. B. Carpenter Microsc. (ed. 3) 500 A ring of small chambers (or chamberlets) is formed around the primordial chamber. 1875Dawson Dawn of Life vii. 181 Small subordinate chamberlets. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 376 Fabularia, a fossil..in which the principal chambers are subdivided into ‘chamberlets’ as in Orbiculina and Orbitolites. 1884Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XXVII. 328 The division of the chamber-segments of the body into chamberletted sub-segments. 1957New Biol. XXIV. 22 The regeneration of a broken chamberlet in the giant Orbitolites. |