foram

Questions about foram

What does foram mean?

foram means "marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude".

How many syllables are in foram?

foram has 2 syllables and divides as fo-ram under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for foram?

Close synonyms include foraminifer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foram a common word?

foram is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.