different between plankton vs whalebone
plankton
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Plankton, coined by Viktor Hensen and derived from Ancient Greek ???????? (planktós, “drifter”), from ????? (pláz?, “I turn aside, wander”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?plæ?kt?n/
Noun
plankton (usually uncountable, plural planktons or plankton)
- Small (often microscopic) organisms that float in the water. (A single organism is known as a plankter.)
Coordinate terms
- nekton
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Estonian
Noun
plankton (genitive planktoni, partitive planktonit)
- plankton
Inflection
Synonyms
- hõljum
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pl??kton/, [?pl??kt?o?n]
- Rhymes: -??kton
- Syllabification: plank?ton
Noun
plankton
- plankton
Declension
Synonyms
- keijusto
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (planktós).
Noun
plankton n (definite singular planktonet, uncountable)
- plankton
Derived terms
- dyreplankton
References
- “plankton” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (planktós).
Noun
plankton n (definite singular planktonet, uncountable)
- plankton
Derived terms
- dyreplankton
References
- “plankton” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?nkto?n/
- Hyphenation: plank?ton
Noun
plànkt?n m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)
- plankton
Declension
plankton From the web:
- what plankton eat
- what plankton causes red tide
- what plankton looks like
- what plankton drift with the currents
- what plankton use photosynthesis
- what plankton from spongebob
- what are the 3 types of plankton
- what are examples of plankton
whalebone
English
Etymology
whale +? bone
Noun
whalebone (countable and uncountable, plural whalebones)
- The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets
Synonyms
- baleen
Translations
whalebone From the web:
- whalebone what does it mean
- what is whalebone magazine
- what do whalebone whales eat
- what is whalebone used for
- what is whalebone called
- what is whalebone baleen
- what does whalebone whale mean
- what does whalebone mean in spanish
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