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Nekton

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Noun
  1. 1
    All organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales wordnet

Etymology

From German Nekton which was coined in 1890 by Ernst Haeckel. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek νηκτός (nēktós, “swimming”) + -on.

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