picoplankton

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picoplankton

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noun

  1. uncountable The plankton composed of cells between 0.2 and 2 micrometers. He and P. W. Johnson confirmed the recent discovery of a species of photosynthetic picoplankton, using electron microscopes to perceive fluorescence produced by the chlorophyll of the organisms.

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@misc{picoplankton_2026,
  title = {picoplankton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/picoplankton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}