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noun
An extracellular pellet of waste material produced by some groups of foraminiferans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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History
Derived from the German Sterkom coined by Fritz Schaudinn in 1899 in "Untersuchungen über den Generationswechsel von Trichosphaerium sieboldii Schn". Abhandlungen der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1898: 44https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96964#page/462/mode/1up. Corresponds to Latin stercus (“dung”) + -ome.
