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bacterioplankton

noun

Etymology

From bacterio- + plankton.

  1. derived from πλαγκτόν
  2. borrowed from Plankton
  3. formed as bacterioplankton — “bacterio- + plankton”

Definitions

  1. The bacterial component of marine plankton

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bacterioplankton. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA