Ekman dredge
noun
Ek·man dredge
¦ekmən-
: a dredge that has opposable jaws operated by a messenger traveling down a cable to release a spring catch and that is used in ecology for sampling the bottom of a body of water
Word History
Etymology
probably after V.W. Ekman †1954 Swedish oceanographer
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