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Definition

tiny or microscopic plants and animals that float in water such as oceans or lakes and are eaten by larger animals such as fish

Plankton are important in marine food chains.

Scientists are wondering if they can get plankton to pull more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
study the plankton in ocean sediments
...and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

plankton = tiny or microscopic plants and animals that float in water such as oceans or lakes and are eaten by larger animals such as fish

He might as well have been looking for a specific piece of plankton in the ocean.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
We need to reach the young, and the plankton pitching is when your watchers will be young and vast.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
"Plankton?" said Daphne.
Terry Pratchett -- Nation
Max heard the low rumble of diesel engines; snowflakes drifted like luminescent plankton across the white shine of headlights.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
He sailed over great patches of kelp and spellbinding acres of phosphorescent plankton.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
A report came up from the palmaries: At the desert edge of the plantings, the sand plankton is being poisoned through interaction with the new forms of life.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were ever on the verge of death— plankton, maybe.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
It galloped with jaws wide open, as if to collect us between its teeth the way a whale feeds on plankton.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
The fish were attracted to plankton, and the plankton were attracted to the light.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
They only eat plankton.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
In water that was dense, glassy and flecked by millions of lit-up specks of plankton, fish like trucks and buses and cars and bicycles and pedestrians were madly racing about, no doubt honking and hollering at each other.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
She almost said "plankton" and was happy to have caught the slur before uttering it.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
"I guess you'll see more new stuff tomorrow," Francis said, and Mae remembered the meeting with the plankton pitchers.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Hope he has enough plankton.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
The fish were attracted to plankton, and the plankton were attracted to the light.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

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