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Definition of Plankton

1. Noun. The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water.

Definition of Plankton

1. n. All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters.

Definition of Plankton

1. Noun. a generic term for all the organisms that float in the sea. A single organism is known as a plankter ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plankton

1. the minute animal and plant life of a body of water [n -S]

Medical Definition of Plankton

1. Small (often microscopic) plants and animals floating, drifting or weakly swimming in bodies of fresh or salt water. (31 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plankton

Literary usage of Plankton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"It appears from these studies that the plankton is distributed in the main stream of the ... The production of the plankton falls to its minimum, as a rule, ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"R p_ g_ Chemical Analysis of the plankton. — The chemical composition of the plankton of the Baltic Sea is discussed and compared with the analysis of ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"Suggestions for a more Systematic Study of Oceanic plankton. By G. HERBERT FOWLER, В.Л., Ph.D. In opening the discussion on plankton the writer sketched the ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"plankton-Culture. By Julius Nelson. plankton consists of very simple or microscopic organisms of water, both plant and animal. These organisms are very ..."

5. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"Lack of time prevented experiments for the determination of the coefficient of the net, as the plankton work was only one of several duties assigned the ..."

6. Conditions of Life in the Sea: A Short Account of Quantitative Marine by James Johnstone (1908)
"WE find therefore that there are two main groups of organisms in the plankton of the sea. There are first of all those which are pelagic throughout their ..."

7. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal, Georg Thieme (1907)
"Otto Zacharias: Das plankton als Gegenstand naturkundlicher Unterweisung in ... Seither habe ich meine Versuche, das plankton im Unterricht zu verwenden, ..."

8. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"CHAPTER IV plankton The biological processes going on in streams, ponds, lakes and the sea are no less important than those occurring in various kinds of ..."

9. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"It appears from these studies that the plankton is distributed in the main stream of the ... The production of the plankton falls to its minimum, as a rule, ..."

10. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"R p_ g_ Chemical Analysis of the plankton. — The chemical composition of the plankton of the Baltic Sea is discussed and compared with the analysis of ..."

11. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"Suggestions for a more Systematic Study of Oceanic plankton. By G. HERBERT FOWLER, В.Л., Ph.D. In opening the discussion on plankton the writer sketched the ..."

12. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"plankton-Culture. By Julius Nelson. plankton consists of very simple or microscopic organisms of water, both plant and animal. These organisms are very ..."

13. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"Lack of time prevented experiments for the determination of the coefficient of the net, as the plankton work was only one of several duties assigned the ..."

14. Conditions of Life in the Sea: A Short Account of Quantitative Marine by James Johnstone (1908)
"WE find therefore that there are two main groups of organisms in the plankton of the sea. There are first of all those which are pelagic throughout their ..."

15. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal, Georg Thieme (1907)
"Otto Zacharias: Das plankton als Gegenstand naturkundlicher Unterweisung in ... Seither habe ich meine Versuche, das plankton im Unterricht zu verwenden, ..."

16. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"CHAPTER IV plankton The biological processes going on in streams, ponds, lakes and the sea are no less important than those occurring in various kinds of ..."

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