ppl. a. [f. L. forāmināt-us (see FORAMINATE a.) + -ED1.] Bored, pierced, perforated: see also quot. 1839.

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1599.  A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 28/1. Fine totalle, and not foraminatede Pearles.

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1728.  R. North, Mem. Musick (1846), 37. The tibia were pipes that sounded by a reedall device like those affixed to bag-pipes, and foraminated for changing the tone when there was occasion.

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1839.  Roberts, Dict. Geol., Foraminated.… Applied to a shell, the chambers of which are united by a small perforation or foramen.

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1854.  Woodward, Mollusca, II. 229. Orthidæ. Shell transversely oblong, depressed, rarely foraminated.

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