plankton

Meaning of plankton

noun
  1. the small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water, consisting chiefly of diatoms, protozoans, small crustaceans, and the eggs and larval stages of larger animals. Many animals are adapted to feed on plankton, especially by filtering the water.
    prawns change their diet from plant plankton to animal plankton
    plankton feeders

late 19th century: from German, from Greek planktos ‘wandering’, from the base of plazein ‘wander’.

Information about plankton

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of plankton is: planktons.
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Hyphenation of plankton

plank-ton

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • plankton is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of plankton

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