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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Swimming in the ocean at one stage of life and passing the rest of life vagrant or sessile on the sea-bottom, as part of the diatoms and Oscellaria, the planktonic fucoids, the metagenetic medusæ, some Turbellaria and annelids, the pelagic larvæ of hydroids and corals, and many helminths, echinoderms, Acalepha, and gastropods.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to meroplankton

Etymologies

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mero- +‎ planktonic

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