ALL meanings of meroplankton
mer·o·plank·ton
M m - noun meroplankton a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton. 1
- noun meroplankton (biology) Any organism that spends part of its life-cycle (especially the larval stage) as plankton. 1
- noun meroplankton plankton consisting of organisms at a certain stage of their life cycles, esp larvae, the other stages not being spent as part of the plankton community 0
- noun meroplankton an organism that spends only a part of its life cycle as a member of the plankton community (e.g., the barnacle or starfish, in which only the larval stages are planktonic) 0