Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Globigerinidæ, originally regarded as a genus of cephalopods.
- noun [lowercase] An individual of this genus: used chiefly in collective compounds: as, globigerina-mud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See
Illust. offoraminifera .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes
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Examples
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I split the proxies into three groups: tree rings, ice cores, and other stalactites, globigerina, Chesapeake Mg/Ca, Chinese composite.
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The three series which have this problem are the Arabian Sea globigerina proxy, the China Combined proxy, and the GRIP borehole temperature proxy.
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Rennick took a sounding, 1960 fathoms; the tube brought up two small lumps of volcanic lava with the usual globigerina ooze.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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Central Europe; and on its bottom was deposited the soft ooze of globigerina shells and siliceous sponge skeletons which has now hardened into chalk and flint.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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