Meaning Of The Word Meroplankton
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Meroplankton Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Meroplankton?
meroplankton in American English
an organism that spends only a part of its life cycle as a member of the plankton community (e. g., the barnacle or starfish, in which only the larval stages are planktonic) noun: a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton meroplankton in British English noun: plankton consisting of organisms at a certain stage of their life cycles, esp larvae, the other stages not being spent as part of the plankton community |
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