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ZOOPLANKTON

• ZOOPLANKTON (noun)
The noun ZOOPLANKTON has 1 sense:

1. animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae

Familiarity information: ZOOPLANKTON used as a noun is very rare.

• ZOOPLANKTON (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("zooplankton" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Holonyms ("zooplankton" is a member of...):

plankton (the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water)

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