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adj. Of or pertaining to plankton.

adj. Floating in the open sea rather than living on the seafloor.

Belonging to the plankton; floating or swimming.

Of or pertaining to the animals and plants that float or swim in the water: as, planktonic problems.

adj. of or relating to plankton

"Bacteria that grow in biofilm communities can be as much as 10,000 times more resistant to antibiotics than the so-called planktonic bacteria, which circulate around the body as individual cells."

planktonic current    benthic    pelagic    oceanic   

Ionic    Masonic    Miltonic    Napoleonic    Panasonic   

once-living    nitrogen-fixing    submicroscopic    main sequence    single-cell