NOUN | animal | plankton | the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift / drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water |
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Sounds | plae'ngktahn | |
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Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... |
Meaning | The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift / drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water. | |
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Member of | aggregate, congeries, conglomeration | A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together |
Members | phytoplankton | photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton |
zooplankton | animal constituent of plankton | |
Parts | copepod, copepod crustacean | minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax |
Broader | organism, being | A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently |
Spanish | plancton | |
Catalan | plàncton | |
Adjectives | planktonic | of or relating to plankton |
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