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Noun: merobenthos
  1. Benthos consisting of organisms in pre-adult stages that later become adult in the plankton.
    "More recent studies highlighted the role of merobenthos as cysts of planktonic organisms that spend part of their life quiescent in the sediments."

Type of: benthos

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Merlin
merlin
merlon
Merlot
Merluccius
Merluccius bilinearis
mermaid
Merman
merman
mero-
merobenthos
Merodach
meromelia
meronym
meronymy
Meropidae
Merops
Merostomata
Merovingian
Merovingian dynasty
merozoite