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psammon

/ˈsæmən/

psammon noun: the community of organisms living in the sandy, moist habitat along a shoreline.

Noun

psammon (uncountable)

  1. The community of organisms living in the sandy, moist habitat along a shoreline.
    • Rotifers also are present in the psammon, the sandy habitat along the wet reaches of shorelines.2014, James H. Thorp, D. Christopher Rogers, Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Ecology and General Biology

Origin of psammon

From psammo- + -on, to be analogous to plankton.

Words formed from psammon

Questions about psammon

What does psammon mean?
Psammon means the community of organisms living in the sandy, moist habitat along a shoreline.
What part of speech is psammon?
Psammon is a noun.
How do you pronounce psammon?
Psammon is pronounced /ˈsæmən/.

Words near psammon in the dictionary

  1. psammoma
  2. psammomas
  3. psammomata
  4. psammomatoid
  5. psammomatous
  6. psammon
  7. psammonic
  8. psammopelitic
  9. psammophile
  10. psammophiles
  11. psammophilic

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