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The tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by the current of the wind.
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(biology) The bacterial component of marine plankton
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Plankton normally living in the top hundred fathoms of a body of water (at a depth of about 180 metres or less).
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Plankton that lives in still freshwater such as ponds and marshes.
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Of or pertaining to lathyrism.
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Related to macrozooplankton
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zooplankton measuring from 0.2 to 20 millimetres
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(zoology) Of a foraminifer: large in size, but having a small initial chamber.
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Alternative form of microzoan [Relating to the microzoa.]
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Any of the smallest forms of zooplankton
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(obsolete) Any pleomorphic organism inside any given body.
adj
Relating to, or composed of phytoliths
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Plankton, especially those small in size, that obtain energy by photosynthesis.
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(ecology) A large, temporary colony of phytoplankton floating in the sea; they are important in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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A form of photosynthetic picoplankton.
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(biology) photosynthetic picoplankton
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(uncountable) Organisms, especially small and microscopic ones, that drift in water.
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Any plankton that lacks buoyancy and so attaches itself to a floating object
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Relating to, or characteristic of a troglobite
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nanoplankton and picoplankton considered as a group
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