foraminiferal
adjective
foraminiferal is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-A-M-I-N-I-F-E-R-A-L, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does foraminiferal mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foraminiferal
- more foraminiferal comparative
- most foraminiferal superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foraminiferal?
Foraminiferal appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does foraminiferal come from?
From foraminifer + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).