pleuston

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The organisms that live floating at the surface of water. uncountable
    — They^([Cnidarians]) are also the dominant organisms of the marine pleuston, providing food or substrate for a variety of other invertebrates living at the air-water interface[…].
  2. Plants that live floating at the surface of water. uncountable

词汇关系

上位词
hydrophyte
衍生词
pleustonic
相关词
pleustal plankton nekton neuston

词源

From Ancient Greek πλεῦσις (pleûsis, “sailing”), from πλέω (pléō) + -on. The -t- is on analogy with the coordinate terms.
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