Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to the plankton; floating or swimming.
- Of or pertaining to the animals and plants that float or swim in the water: as, planktonic problems.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
plankton . - adjective
Floating in theopen sea rather than living on theseafloor .
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- adjective of or relating to plankton
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bacteria that grow in biofilm communities can be as much as 10,000 times more resistant to antibiotics than the so-called planktonic bacteria, which circulate around the body as individual cells.
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Change, Howard and his colleagues collected microscopic marine animals - called planktonic foraminifera, or forams - from the
Articles of Health 2009
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With funding from the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Howard and his colleagues collected microscopic marine animals - called planktonic foraminifera, or forams - from the South Tasman Rise region of the Southern Ocean.
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Shifts in thermal regimes that result in increased local densities of hosts, especially intermediate ones such as planktonic or benthic invertebrates, are also very likely to increase parasite species diversity [19].
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Most of the phenotypic characteristics of animals and plants on Earth are related to the force of gravity, while most of the characteristics of the planktonic life in Water are generally indifferent to the pull of gravity.
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Truncatella breathes with a gill (see my dissection here), but lives its entire life on land near the sea, while Melampus breathes with a lung, lives at the edge of the sea, but enters it to reproduce via planktonic veliger larvae.
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Measurements indicate elevated turbulent dissipation — comparable with levels caused by winds and tides — in the vicinity of large populations of planktonic animals swimming together1.
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Not a blind bean, he says, smirking planktonic into the the oldest soup in the known universe—
Unfathomable Mammals Marc Vincenz 2011
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Measurements indicate elevated turbulent dissipation — comparable with levels caused by winds and tides — in the vicinity of large populations of planktonic animals swimming together1.
tingilinde: 2009
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He has a special interest in planktonic ciliates, especially tintinnids which display an amazing variety of forms.
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