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Benthon

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Noun
  1. 1
    The habitat at the bottom of a body of water.

    "The simple trophic relations in the plankton do not demand such a wide variety of adaptations as do the complex relations in the benthon where, in addition to microphagous herbivores, there are also macrophagous ones and an^([sic]) unique of detritus feeders which build up animal protoplasm on the sea floor."

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From benth- + -on.

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