NEKTON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("nekton" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Holonyms ("nekton" is a member of...):

aggregate; congeries; conglomeration (a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together)

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