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IPA transcription: [p'læŋktən]
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Noun
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the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
Usage examples
- The salp strains the pumped water through its internal feeding filters, feeding on phytoplankton.
- Sabertooth fish larvae are planktonic and have long snouts and oblong eyes before metamorphosis.
- Chun was a specialist on cephalopods and plankton.
- Phytoplankton manufacture their own food using a process of photosynthesis.
- The bipinnaria is free-living, swimming as part of the zooplankton.
- Manta rays are abundant, attracted to the plankton around the island.
- Both sexual and asexual reproduction are used depending on the type of plankton.
- Phytoplankton need nitrogen in biologically available forms for the initial synthesis of organic matter.
- As juveniles, chub mackerel feed mainly on zooplankton.
- Add the Plankton Man track to my alternative r&b playlist.