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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Swimming in the ocean at one stage of life and passing the rest of life vagrant or sessile on the sea-bottom, as part of the diatoms and Oscellaria, the planktonic fucoids, the metagenetic medusæ, some Turbellaria and annelids, the pelagic larvæ of hydroids and corals, and many helminths, echinoderms, Acalepha, and gastropods.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to meroplankton
Etymologies
- mero- + planktonic (Wiktionary)
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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