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nekton

nekton noun: all organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents.

Noun

nekton (countable and uncountable, plural nektons)

  1. All organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents.

nekton meaning in Hindi and Tamil

nekton in Hindi

organisms in the ocean
तरणक tarṇak

nekton in Tamil

நெக்ட்டான், நீரில் அசையும் உயிர்

Forms of nekton

pluralnektons

Origin of nekton

From German Nekton which was coined in 1890 by Ernst Haeckel. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek νηκτός (nēktós, “swimming”) + -on.

Words formed from nekton

Questions about nekton

What does nekton mean?
Nekton means all organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents.
What is nekton in Hindi?
Nekton in Hindi is तरणक (tarṇak). See Nekton meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nekton?
Nekton is a noun.
What is the plural of nekton?
The plural of nekton is nektons.

Words near nekton in the dictionary

  1. nektaspidids
  2. nektic
  3. nekto-
  4. nektobenthic
  5. nektobenthos
  6. nekton
  7. nektonic
  8. nektons
  9. nektoplankton
  10. nektoplanktonic
  11. nektoplanktons

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