plankto-, plankt-, -plankton +
(Greek: passively drifting, wandering, or roaming)
kremastoplankton
Plankton that consists primarily of organs floating with the aid of hairs, bristles, etc.
limnoplankton
Plankton found in fresh water and in marshes.
macrophytoplankton
Composed either of large plants (megaphytoplankton) or of elongate plants such as filamentous algae.
macroplankton
Large planktonic organisms 20-200 mm in diameter or those that can be classified without the need of a microscope.
megaloplankton
Largest of the planktonic organisms, typically greater than 10 mm in diameter.
megaplankton
Planktonic organisms of the largest size group, 200 mm to 2 m (including water-hyacinth, jellyfish, etc.).
meroplankton, meroplanktonic
1. Organisms in marine coastal areas that spend only part of their life cycle as plankton, being at other times benthic dwellers.
2. Passing only part of the life-cycle drifting or swimming weakly in water.
mesoplankton, mesoplanktonic
The plankton living between about a hundred fathoms from the bottom and a hundred from the surface or between epiplankton and bathyplankton; alternatively, all plankton below the epiplankton level.
microplankton
Small (tiny) planktonic organisms.
morphoplankton
Planktonic organisms rendered buoyant by anatomical specializations such as oil droplets or gas vesicles, or in which the rate of sinking is reduced by structural features or diminutive body size.
nanoplankton, nanoplanktonic
1. Minute (very tiny) planktonic organisms that formerly passed through a 0.03-0.04 mm mesh silk bolting cloth; very small forms of plankton.
2. Plankton of minute size, especially plankton composed of orgnisms measuring from two to twenty micrometers.
neidioplankton
Planktonic organisms possessing some form of swimming locomation.
neritoplankton
Plankton of shallow continental shelf waters.
neroplankton
Plankton that is derived from coastal waters.
neuroplankton
Plankton found only at certain seasons of the year.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "sea" and the "ocean" bodies of water:
abysso- (bottomless);
Atlantic;
batho-, bathy- (depth);
bentho- (deep, depth);
halio-, halo- (salt or "the sea");
mare, mari- (sea);
necto-, nekto- (swimming);
oceano-;
pelago- (sea, ocean);
thalasso- (sea, ocean).
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