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meiofauna

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

Syllables
meio-fau-na
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A group of marine or freshwater, typically benthic organisms that are intermediate in terms of size between macrofauna and microfauna, and which can pass through a 1 mm sieve, but are retained by a 45 μm sieve.

Etymology

From meio- + fauna. Meio- is from Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

meiofaunas (plural) meiofaunae (plural)

Derived Forms

meiofaunal

Synonyms

meiobenthos

Questions

What does meiofauna mean?
A group of marine or freshwater, typically benthic organisms that are intermediate in terms of size between macrofauna and microfauna, and which can pass through a 1 mm sieve, but are retained by a 45 μm sieve.
Where does meiofauna come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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