Holoplankton

What do we mean by holoplankton?

The collection of organisms that spend all stages of their life cycle as plankton, drifting freely in the water. noun

The plants and animals that pass their whole life swimming or floating in the water, considered collectively and in contrast with those that float or swim for only a part of their lives, passing the rest upon or in the bottom. See hemibenthic, holebenthic, hemiplankton, holoplanktonic, planktonic. noun

Any organism that spends all of its life-cycle as plankton noun

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Words that are spelled similarly to holoplankton:
holoplankton, zooplankton, haliplankton.

Adjectives that are often used to describe holoplankton:
oceanic, characteristic.

Words that sound like holoplankton:
hoary plantain, zooplankton, willow-pattern, cisplatin, supplanting, sappington, scopolamine, salientian, solomon, salma.