deep-sea benthos

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• deep — Synonyms and related words: Bassalia, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, absorbed, absorbing, abstract, abstracted, abstruse, abysm, abysmal, abyss, abyssal, abyssal zone, acute, ample, amplitudinous, ankle deep, arcane, arch, ardent, artful, astute,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• benthos — Synonyms and related words: Bassalia, Loch Ness monster, abyss, abyssal zone, alevin, bathyal zone, benthon, bottom waters, bottomless depths, cetacean, dolphin, fingerling, fish, fry, game fish, grilse, ground, inner space, kipper, man eater,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• benthos — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, depth, deep sea; akin to Greek bathys deep Date: 1891 organisms that live on or in the bottom of a body of water …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• benthos — life forms of the deep ocean and sea floor, 1891, coined by Haeckel from Gk. benthos depth of the sea, related to bathos depth, bathys deep, of unknown origin. Adjective benthic is attested from 1902 …   Etymology dictionary

• Benthos — Ben thos (b[e^]n th[o^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. be nqos depth of the sea.] The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zo[ o]l.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; opposed to {plankton}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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