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n. The collection of small or microscopic organisms, including algae and protozoans, that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water, especially at or near the surface, and serve as food for fish and other larger organisms.

n. a generic term for all the organisms that float in the sea. A single organism is known as a plankter

n. All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters.

n. In biology: The minor animals and plants, including especially the lower organisms, that float or swim together in the water, considered collectively and in contrast, with those that live upon the bottom under the water, or on land.

n. The minor animals and plants that float passively in the water, considered collectively and in contrast with those that swim actively. See nekton.

n. Specifically in phytogeography, an aquatic vegetation consisting of freely floating microscopic algæ.

n. the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water

"No one has ever found an adult of these puzzling crustaceans, despite the plethora of these larvae in plankton, leading generations of marine zoologists to wonder just what y - larvae grow up to be."

being    organism   

polymixic plankton    zonary plankton    pelagic plankton    plankton pulse    monotonic plankton    neritic plankton    oceanic plankton    bathybic plankton    limnetic plankton   

aeroplankton    phytoplankton    bacterioplankton    zooplankton    plankter   

algae    krill    shellfish    squid    jellyfish    diatoms    Cyanobacteria    invertebrate    microorganisms    centipede