plankton
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
Types & categories
- organism hypernym
Parts & wholes
- congeries member holonym
- phytoplankton member meronym
- zooplankton member meronym
- copepod part meronym
Related & opposite
- planktonic derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | planktonic |
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | congeries |
| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | phytoplankton |
| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | zooplankton |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | copepod |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | organism |