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Definition of Limnetic
1. pertaining to the open water of a lake or pond [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limnetic
Literary usage of Limnetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscopy of Drinking Water by George Chandler Whipple, John Wymond Miller Bunker (1914)
"Then there are organisms that may be said to be facultative limnetic forms, that is,
... The true limnetic forms, however, are the most important in ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"General. Predominance of the photic region, ii. The Differentiation of the Vegetation.
\. The limnetic Benthos of Lakes. ..."
3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"It should not be inferred, however, that these distinctions between littoral,
limnetic, abyssal, etc., are absolute. In many cases, species commonly ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Fresh-water, or limnetic, Plant Societies. 1114. Pond or inland-lake societies.—These
should be observed in connection with swamp societies and the flora of ..."
5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Fresh-water, or limnetic, Plant Societies. 1114. Pond or inland-lake societies.—These
should be observed in connection with ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"This exaggerated growth of the limnetic flora is most pronounced in shallow ...
It is not true, as is sometimes stated, that the limnetic fauna is entirely ..."
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