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planktont Biol.|ˈplæŋktɒnt|
[f. plankton + Gr. ὄν, ὀντ- being: see onto-.]
An individual organism of the plankton.
1897Science 3 Dec. 830/1 The struggles of the imprisoned organisms and the pressure of the filtering water also materially assist the escape of planktonts through the yielding meshes of silk. 1926Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 8th Ser. XI. 152 Some of the freshwater planctonts [sic]..were made to serve as a support for the theories of heredity. 1931Jrnl. Ecology XIX. 246 Multiplication of the littoral planktonts in the open water will naturally only take place if the latter contains an adequate amount of mineral nutriment. 1935P. S. Welch Limnology ix. 205 The term planktont of the older literature should be abandoned because of its faulty word structure. 1948New Biol. V. 21 Blue-green planktonts are generally most abundant..in summer and late autumn. |