Look up: plankton

1. plankton
   Type: Term Pronunciation: plangk′tŏn Definitions: 1. A general term for many floating marine forms, mostly of microscopic or minute size, which are moved passively by winds, waves, tides, or currents; it includes diatoms, algae, copepods, and many protozoans, crustacea, mollusks, and worms.
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2. plankton
   n. Very small, free-floating organisms of the ocean or other aquatic systems, including phytoplankton, which produce their own nutrients through photosynthesis, or zooplankton, which get their nutrients from organisms.
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3. Plankton
   Tiny plants and animals that live in water.
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4. Plankton
   Organisms living suspended in the water column and incapable of moving against water currents
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5. Plankton
   organisms that drift about in the ocean that are usually minute.
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6. plankton
   Passively floating or weakly motile aquatic plants ( phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton ).
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7. Plankton
   Organisms existing floating or suspended freely in a body of water.
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8. plankton
   [n] - the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
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9. Plankton
   are free floating minute plants or animals in the sea, lakes or rivers. The plant forms photosynthesise (above), supplying food for all the sea food chains. They are also said to be responsible for one quarter of Europe`s acid rain (above) due to their production of dimethyl sulphide which...
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10. Plankton
    Plank'ton (plănk'tŏn) noun [ New Latin , from Greek plagto`n , neut. of plagto`s wandering, pla`zesqai to wander.] (Biol.) All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near th...
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11. plankton
    <marine biology> Small (often microscopic) plants and animals floating, drifting or weakly swimming in bodies of fresh or salt water. ... (31 Dec 1997) ...
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12. plankton
    noun the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
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13. Plankton
    • (n.) All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters.
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14. plankton
    marine and freshwater organisms, which, because they are nonmotile or because they are too small or too weak to swim against the current, exist in a ... [11 related articles]
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15. plankton
    plankton 1. Those organisms that are unable to maintain their position or distribution independent of the movement of water or air masses. 2. A collective term for the wide variety of plant and animal organisms, often microscopic in size, that float or drift freely in water because they have little ...
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16. plankton
    Small, often microscopic, forms of plant and animal life that live in the upper layers of fresh and salt water, and are an important source of food for larger animals. Marine plankton is concentrated in areas where rising currents bring mineral salts to the surface
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17. Plankton
    Microscopic plants and animals that drift near the surface of open waters.
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18. Plankton
    Minute plant (phytoplankton) and animal organisms (zooplankton) that are found in aquatic ecosystems.
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19. Plankton
    small aquatic organisms whose direction is controlled by water movements. Plankton may be able to swim by means of flagella or other appendages, but they are not strong enough to swim against a current.
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20. plankton
    plankton: see marine biology.
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21. Plankton
    Aquatic organisms that drift, or swim weakly.
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22. Plankton
    Plankton is minute plant and animal organisms found in water. It is a source of food for many fish and whales.
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23. Plankton
    Those organisms that are unable to maintain their position or distribution independent of the movement of water or air masses.
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24. plankton
    (Gk: planktos wandering/ drifting) a collective term for the small plants and animals which float and drift in surface waters. Phytoplankton is the plant component and zooplankton the animal component. Netplankton is the plankton caught in a 70 micron mesh (a hair's width) and is easily visible unde...
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25. plankton
    microscopic plant-like (phytoplankton) or animal (zooplankton) organisms that drift in the water
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