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holoplankton

holoplankton noun: any organism that spends all of its life-cycle as plankton.

Noun

holoplankton (countable and uncountable, plural holoplankton or holoplanktons)

  1. Any organism that spends all of its life-cycle as plankton.
    • Holoplanktons are consumed by a wide variety of marine organisms, ranging from small invertebrates to large fish and marine mammals.(Can we date this quote?), “Plankton”, in Biology Online

holoplankton meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

holoplankton in Tamil

தற்சார்பு மிதவை நுண்ணுயிர்கள்

holoplankton in Indonesian

Translations
holoplankton

Forms of holoplankton

pluralholoplankton
pluralholoplanktons

Origin of holoplankton

From holo- + plankton.

Words formed from holoplankton

Questions about holoplankton

What does holoplankton mean?
Holoplankton means any organism that spends all of its life-cycle as plankton.
What is holoplankton in Tamil?
Holoplankton in Tamil is தற்சார்பு மிதவை நுண்ணுயிர்கள். See Holoplankton meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is holoplankton?
Holoplankton is a noun.
What is the plural of holoplankton?
The plural of holoplankton is holoplankton.

Words near holoplankton in the dictionary

  1. holophytes
  2. holophytic
  3. holophytism
  4. holophytochrome
  5. holophytochromes
  6. holoplankton
  7. holoplanktonic
  8. holoplanktons
  9. holoplastocyanin
  10. holoplastocyanins
  11. holoploid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holoplankton (page history and authors); holoplankton (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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