NEKTON
Dictionary entry overview: What does nekton mean? • NEKTON (noun)
The noun NEKTON has 1 sense:
1. the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
Familiarity information: NEKTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NEKTON (noun)
Meaning:
The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("nekton" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
Holonyms ("nekton" is a member of...):
aggregate; congeries; conglomeration (a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together)
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