globigerina

1. 1.

   marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes

   Broaderforam

Other forms of globigerina

plural

globigerinae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about globigerina

What does globigerina mean?

globigerina means "marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes".

How many syllables are in globigerina?

globigerina has 5 syllables: glo-bi-ge-ri-na. The stress falls on "ge".

Is globigerina a common word?

globigerina 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.