Home › Words › F › foramforamforam means A foraminifer.EtymologyShortening of foraminifer.nounA foraminifer.e.g.“Some forams allow single-celled algae to lodge on the surface of their bodies, rather as tropical coral do.” — 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 291:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).