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Webster 1913 Edition


Parkeria


Par-ke′ri-a

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p
rop.
Noun.
[NL. So named from
W. K.
Parker
, a British zoologist.]
(Zool.)
A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.