globigerineadj.
/ɡləʊˈbɪdʒərʌɪn/, U.S. /ɡloʊˈbɪdʒəˌraɪn/, /ɡloʊˈbɪdʒəˌrin/ Zoology and Palaeontology.
Designating, characteristic of, or composed of foraminiferans of the genus Globigerina or (more widely) the family Globigerinidae. Cf. Globigerina n.
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1860 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 150 593 Interior of the first-formed chambers of three specimens, showing their Globigerine characters and arrangement.
1869 Student's Mag. Feb. 33 Globigerine deposits.
1880 Nature 1 Jan. 219/2 The areas occupied by the globigerine or calcareous ‘ooze’.
1912 Times 11 Sept. 3/3 These animals were found on varying types of bottom—globigerine ooze, red clay, diatom ooze, and blue mud.
1976 N.Z. Jrnl. Geol. & Geophysics 19 316 This chamber and its predecessor have a high-arched aperture as in globigerine taxa.
1995 Jrnl. Paleontol. 69 203 When the planktonic foraminifera return to their ‘primitive’ globigerine morphology during the Eocene–Oligocene transition, there is no indication of size-dependent origination or extinction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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