Значення

значень: 2
  1. (незлічуване, зазвичай)Organisms, especially small and microscopic ones, that drift in water.

    Whales feed on tiny plankton drifting in the ocean.

    The lake water was full of microscopic plankton.

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

  2. (злічуване, зазвичай)A plankter, any single organism that drifts in water.

    Plankton

    планкто́нplanktón

Приклади

речень: 12
  1. Whale sharks eat plankton.

  2. The whale shark feeds on plankton.

    ruКитовая акула питается планктоном.

    deDer Walhai ernährt sich von Plankton.

  3. Whales feed on plankton and small fish.

    ruКиты питаются планктоном и мелкой рыбёшкой.

    deWale ernähren sich von Plankton und kleinen Fischen.

  4. Tiny animals such as krill eat plankton.

    deWinzige Tierchen wie Krill fressen Plankton.

  5. The water is green with microscopic plankton.

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Походження

Borrowed from German Plankton, coined by German zoologist and marine biologist Victor Hens

Borrowed from German Plankton, coined by German zoologist and marine biologist Victor Hensen. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek πλαγκτός (planktós, “drifter”) + -on. Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλαγκτόν (planktón, “drifting”), neuter nominative of πλαγκτός (planktós), from πλάζομαι (plázomai, “to wander, drift”), from πλάζω (plázō, “to cause to wander, drive astray”). By surface analysis, plankt- + -on.

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