Look up: zooplankton

1. zooplankton
   Tiny, free-floating organisms in aquatic systems. Unlike phytoplankton, zooplankton cannot produce their own food, and so are consumers.
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2. Zooplankton
   Small (often microscopic) free-floating aquatic plants or animals.
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3. Zooplankton
   Animal members of the plankton
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4. Zooplankton
   plankton composed of animal life.
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5. zooplankton
   That portion of the plankton community comprised of tiny aquatic animals eaten by fish.
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6. Zooplankton
   Animal portion of the plankton; the animal community in marine and fresh-water situations which floats free in the water, independent of the shore and the bottom, moving passively with the currents.
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7. zooplankton
   [n] - animal constituent of plankton
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8. Zooplankton
   the animal component of plankton; animals suspended or drifting in the water column including larvae of many fish and benthic invertebrates.
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9. zooplankton
   animal plankton. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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10. zooplankton
    <marine biology> Small (often microscopic) aquatic animals and nonphotosynthetic protists suspended or weakly swimming in water. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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11. zooplankton
    noun animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae
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12. zooplankton
    small floating or weakly swimming organisms that drift with water currents and, with phytoplankton, make up the planktonic food supply upon which ... [6 related articles]
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13. zooplankton
    zooplankton, zooplankters, zooplanktonic 1. Animal plankton; floating animal organisms collectively. 2. A small animal organism present in natural waters. 3. Microscopic animals that move passively in aquatic ecosystems; such as, protozoans. 4. Microscopic drifting animal life much of which lives...
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14. Zooplankton
    Small heterotrophic organisms found inhabiting aquatic ecosystems. Also see plankton and phytoplankton.
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15. zooplankton
    zooplankton: see marine biology.
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16. Zooplankton
    Zooplankton is the animal component of plankton. All major animal phyla are represented in zooplankton, as adults, larvae, or eggs; some are just visible to the naked eye but most cannot be seen without magnification. Near the surface of the sea there may be many thousands of such animals per cubic metre.
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17. zooplankton
    small, sometimes microscopic animals that drift in the ocean. It includes protozoa, crustaceans, jellyfish and other invertebrates that drift at various depths in the water column. Compare with phytoplankton.
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18. Zooplankton
    (ən-->) are heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) plankton. Plankton are organisms drifting in oceans, seas, and bodies of fresh water. The word "zooplankton" is derived from the Greek zoon (), meaning "animal", and (), meaning "wanderer" or &quo...
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