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mixoplankton

mixoplankton noun: a plankton that can obtain nutrients either through autotrophy or heterotrophy.

Noun

mixoplankton (plural mixoplankton or mixoplanktons)

  1. A plankton that can obtain nutrients either through autotrophy or heterotrophy.
    • Mixoplanktons adopt the mixed trophic strategy called mixotrophy.(Can we date this quote?), “Plankton”, in Biology Online

Forms of mixoplankton

pluralmixoplankton
pluralmixoplanktons

Origin of mixoplankton

From mixo- + plankton, coined in 2019. https://academic.oup.com/plankt/article/41/4/375/5531601

Questions about mixoplankton

What does mixoplankton mean?
Mixoplankton means a plankton that can obtain nutrients either through autotrophy or heterotrophy.
What part of speech is mixoplankton?
Mixoplankton is a noun.
What is the plural of mixoplankton?
The plural of mixoplankton is mixoplankton.

Words near mixoplankton in the dictionary

  1. mixomycetophagy
  2. Mixon
  3. Mixons
  4. mixopapillary
  5. mixoperipheral growth
  6. mixoplankton
  7. mixoplanktons
  8. mixoploid
  9. mixoploids
  10. mixoploidy
  11. mixopterid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mixoplankton (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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