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picoplankton

noun

Etymology

From pico- + plankton.

  1. derived from πλαγκτόν
  2. borrowed from Plankton
  3. prefixed as picoplankton — “pico + plankton”

Definitions

  1. The plankton composed of cells between 0.2 and 2 micrometers.

    • He and P. W. Johnson confirmed the recent discovery of a species of photosynthetic picoplankton, using electron microscopes to perceive fluorescence produced by the chlorophyll of the organisms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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