Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

neustonic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: neuston-ic
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to neuston.

Example Sentences

"Black-footed Albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) and Laysan Albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) [...] appear to be particularly vulnerable to plastic ingestion. This is likely due to their feeding strategy, selecting floating items from the ocean surface. In the time before the abundance of plastics, these items would have been dominated by organic matter and neustonic (floating) organisms."

Etymology

From neuston + -ic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: neuston

Questions

What does neustonic mean?: Relating to neuston.
Where does neustonic come from?: From neuston + -ic.

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