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IPA transcription: [p'læŋktən]

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Noun

  • 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.
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