Synonyms for plankton
ˈplæŋk tənplank·ton

Princeton's WordNet

1. planktonnoun

   the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water

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1. • Organism

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1. List of paraphrases for "plankton":

   planktonic, phytoplankton

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1. List of known nicknames for "Plankton":

   Frank J, Jordens, Frank

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How to use plankton in a sentence?

1. Luiz Rocha:

   It's a really different environment : It's darker( because the water functions as a filter absorbing light, so the deeper you go, the darker it gets) and colder, there are much fewer corals, and almost no algae( because of the lack of light), so the fish community is very different and most fish at this depth feed on plankton( tiny marine invertebrates that live in the water column).

2. Lia Siegelman:

   When I saw the richness of the turbulence around the Jovian cyclones, with all the filaments and smaller eddies, it reminded me of the turbulence you see in the ocean around eddies, these are especially evident in high-resolution satellite images of vortices in Earth's oceans that are revealed by plankton blooms that act as tracers of the flow.

3. Anastassia Miliou:

   With these giant exercises... strain is placed on the entire marine ecosystem, including fish and plankton, because (they) cause intense noise pollution from which marine life cant escape.

4. Toby Daly-Engel:

   If the sharks disappear, the little fish explode in population, because nothings eating them, pretty soon, their food plankton, microorganisms, little shrimps all of that is gone, so all the little fish ultimately starve.

5. Sam Slater:

   Rather than them being victims of these past warming events, our records indicate that the proliferation of plankton contributed to the expansion of marine dead zones -- regions where seafloor oxygen levels were too low for most species to survive, these conditions, with expanding dead zones and plankton blooms, may become more widespread across our globally warming oceans.