PLANKTERS Synonyms
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Definition of PLANKTERS
plankter
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copepod | nounn | |||||||
noun • minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | ||||||||
diatom | nounn | |||||||
noun • microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica | ||||||||
dinoflagellate | nounn | |||||||
noun • chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | ||||||||
foraminifer | nounn | |||||||
noun • marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | ||||||||
jellyfish | nounn | |||||||
noun • large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles • any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | ||||||||
krill | nounn | |||||||
noun • shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | ||||||||
nanoplankton | nounn | |||||||
noun • microscopic organisms found in plankton | ||||||||
phytoplankton | nounn | |||||||
noun • photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae | ||||||||
protist | nounn | |||||||
noun • free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes | ||||||||
siphonophore | nounn | |||||||
noun • a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored | ||||||||
zooplankton | nounn | |||||||
noun • animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae | ||||||||
holoplankton | nounn | |||||||
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meroplankton | nounn | |||||||
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microplankton | nounn | |||||||
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