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Plankton   /plˈæŋktən/   Listen
Plankton

noun
1.
The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water.



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... plankton and algae concentrates were not so important as to orientation, but should be fed into their rim-river homes as soon as possible, although this could not be done until the rim spin was well ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond
... lake swarm with fish (sturgeons and salmonidae), and its herring (Salmo omul) is the chief product of the fisheries, though notably fewer have been taken within the last forty or fifty years. Plankton is very abundant. The little Lake Frolikha, situated close to the northern extremity of Lake Baikal and communicating with it by means of a river of the same name, contains a peculiar species of trout, Salmo erythreas, which is not ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various


Words linked to "Plankton" :   conglomeration, organism, being, copepod, copepod crustacean, aggregate, phytoplankton, congeries


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