Definition of Nekton

1. Noun. The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales.

Generic synonyms: Being, Organism
Group relationships: Aggregate, Congeries, Conglomeration

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

neither fish nor fowl
neither here nor there
neive
neives
nek
nekkid
nekoite
nekomimi
nekomimis
nekrasovite
nekropoleis
nekropolis
nekropolises
neks
nektobenthic
nekton (current term)
nektonic
nektons
nelarabine
nelenite
nelfinavir
nelfinavir mesylate
nelies
nelis
nelivaptan
nellie
nellies
nelson syndrome
nelsons

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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