holoplankton

English

Etymology

From holo- +‎ plankton.

Noun

holoplankton (countable and uncountable, plural holoplankton or holoplanktons)

1. (biology) Any organism that spends all of its life-cycle as plankton.
   • (Can we date this quote?), “Plankton”, in Biology Online‎^[1]:

     Holoplanktons are consumed by a wide variety of marine organisms, ranging from small invertebrates to large fish and marine mammals.

Derived terms

• holoplanktonic

Translations

Translations

• Danish: holoplankton (da) n
• Finnish: holoplankton (fi)
• Indonesian: holoplankton (id)
• Russian: голопланктон (ru) m (goloplankton)