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单词 marine snow
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marine snow
marine snow n. aggregates of suspended or downward-drifting organic matter, living and dead organisms, and inorganic particles, which resemble snowfall when viewed by undersea investigators.
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1953 N. Suzuki & K. Kato in Bull. Faculty Fisheries Hokkaido Univ. 4 132 From the appearance of the suspended materials the authors propose to give the name ‘Marine Snow’ to them.
1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) x. 187/2 These flakes of ‘marine snow’ probably start life as strands of mucus shed by zooplankton. In time they acquire a rich community of bacteria, diatoms, dinoflagellates and protozoa, together with non-living material that settles on their surfaces.
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