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infauna

infauna noun: any aquatic organism that lives within the dominant medium of its environment, but especially within aquatic sediments.

Noun

infauna (plural infaunas or infauna or infaunae)

  1. Any aquatic organism that lives within the dominant medium of its environment, but especially within aquatic sediments.
    • Burrowing bivalves are infauna that filter-feed from within seafloor sediments.

infauna meaning in Tamil

infauna in Tamil

ஆழ்கடல் விலங்கினம்

Forms of infauna

pluralinfaunas
pluralinfauna
pluralinfaunae

Words formed from infauna

Questions about infauna

What does infauna mean?
Infauna means any aquatic organism that lives within the dominant medium of its environment, but especially within aquatic sediments.
What is infauna in Tamil?
Infauna in Tamil is ஆழ்கடல் விலங்கினம். See Infauna meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is infauna?
Infauna is a noun.
What is the plural of infauna?
The plural of infauna is infaunas.

Words near infauna in the dictionary

  1. infatuational
  2. infatuations
  3. infatuative
  4. infatuator
  5. infatuators
  6. infauna
  7. infaunae
  8. infaunal
  9. infaunalization
  10. infaunally
  11. infaunas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infauna (page history and authors); infauna (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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