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Definition of Nekton
1. Noun. The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales.
Definition of Nekton
1. Noun. A generic term for organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nekton
1. free-swimming marine animals [n -S] : NEKTONIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nekton
Literary usage of Nekton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Aerial nekton is abundant in the flying forms, such as insects, birds, ...
Aerial nekton, however, differs from the aquatic in that sooner or later it must ..."
2. Conditions of Life in the Sea: A Short Account of Quantitative Marine by James Johnstone (1908)
"... coined the word " nekton," and the term has come into general use. There is,
of course, no absolute distinction between these three classes of organisms ..."
3. Clinical Lectures on Surgery by Auguste Nélaton (1855)
"In this case, M. nekton said he would do something similar to this section of
the muscular fibres; he would endeavor to paralyze the ..."
4. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
""nekton" embraces all the ... these designations to another, as where it begins
in the benthos and ends in the nekton, or vice versa. ..."
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