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plank·ter

 (plăngk′tər)
n.
One of the minute organisms that collectively constitute plankton.
[Greek planktēr, wanderer, from planktos, wandering; see plankton.]
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plankter

(ˈplænktə)
n
(Biology) biology an organism found in plankton
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plank•ter

(ˈplæŋk tər)

n.
any of the individual organisms in an aggregate of plankton.
[1935–40; < Greek planktḗr roamer. See plankton]
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Caption: The calcareous plankter Emiliania huxleyi forms large blooms in seawater.
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Associations between host plankters and symbiotic copepods are summarized in Table 1.
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Medusae (Scyphozoa and Cubozoa) from southwestern Atlantic and Subantarctic region (32-60[degrees]S, 34-70[degrees]W): species composition, spatial distribution and life history traits
This measurement excluded all fishes, large cephalopods, pelagic crabs, and large plankters (>5 mm), including Thaliacea and medusae (Ohman and Smith, 1995).
Oceanographic influences on the diet of 3 surface-migrating myctophids in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
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Tidal influence on nutrients status and phytoplankton population of Okpoka Creek, Upper Bonny Estuary, Nigeria
A preliminary study on some plankters along the Turkish Black Sea coast-Species composition and spatial distribution.
Species of Genus Tintinnopsis Stein, 1867 in Turkish Coastal Waters and New Record of Tintinnopsis corniger Hada, 1964
[2] Thunmark, S., 1945., Zur sozio logie des susswasser plankters, fine methodologisch- Okologische studies.
Phytoplanktonic diversity and seasonal fluctuations in Surinsar Wetland, Jammu (J&K)--A Ramsar site
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