plankton

See also Plankton

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From German Plankton, coined by Viktor Hensen and derived from Ancient Greek πλαγκτός (“drifter”).

Noun

plankton (usually uncountable; plural planktons)

1. a generic term for all the organisms that float in the sea. A single organism is known as a plankter

Related terms

• aeroplankton
• bacterioplankton
• epiplankton
• holoplankton
• meroplankton
• phytoplankton
• plankter
• planktic
• planktology
• planktonic
• planktotrophic
• zooplankton

Translations

generic term for all the organisms that float in the sea

• Catalan: plàncton (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浮游生物 (cmn) (fúyóu shēngwù)

• Czech: plankton (cs) m
• Esperanto: planktono (eo)
• Finnish: plankton (fi), keijusto (fi)
• French: plancton (fr) m
• Galician: plancto (gl) m
• German: Plankton (de) n
• Greek: πλαγκτόν (el) (plagktón) n 
• Hungarian: plankton (hu)

• Ido: planktono (io)
• Indonesian: plankton (id)
• Interlingua: plancton
• Italian: plancton (it) m
• Japanese: プランクトン (ja) (purankuton)
• Korean: 플랑크톤 (ko) (peullangkeuton)
• Norwegian: plankton (no) n
• Portuguese: plâncton (pt) m
• Russian: планктон (ru) (planktón) m 
• Spanish: plancton (es) m
• Swedish: plankton (sv) n

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plǎnktoːn/
• Hyphenation: plank‧ton

Noun

plànktōn m (Cyrillic spelling пла̀нкто̄н)

1. plankton

Declension

    declension of plankton

	singular
nominative	plànktōn
genitive	planktóna
dative	planktonu
accusative	plankton
vocative	planktone
locative	planktonu
instrumental	planktonom