macroplanktonn.
/ˈmakrəʊˌplaŋ(k)tən/, U.S. /ˈmækroʊˈˌplæŋktən/ Biology.
Plankton that is relatively large; spec. macroscopic plankton.
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1903 Science 18 Sept. 361/2 A series of nets placed at intervals on a rope and hauled vertically was the means used to differentiate the depths at which the macroplankton was taken.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xi. 186 A huge jellyfish, with a disk a yard across, may be taken as a representative of the Macro-plankton, while a little Copepod, the size of a pin's head, belongs to the Micro-plankton.
1948 Annales Biol. 5 29/1 The nets used for the collection of macroplankton samples were one metre in diameter.
1956 Nature 25 Feb. 354/2 The Central Meteorological Observatory..initiates studies of the distribution of microplankton and macroplankton in relation to the water masses.
1994 Polar Biol. 14 491/1 Macroplankton biomass was extremely low.., about one order of mass less than that of the mesoplankton.
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