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NEKTON
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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:
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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