phytoplankton

1. 1.

   photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae

   Broaderplant

   Narrowerplanktonic algaediatom

   Part ofplankton

Other forms of phytoplankton

plural

phytoplanktons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about phytoplankton

What does phytoplankton mean?

phytoplankton means "photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae".

How many syllables are in phytoplankton?

phytoplankton has 4 syllables: phy-to-plank-ton. The stress falls on "plank". In IPA it is /ˌfaɪtoʊˈplæŋtən/.

Is phytoplankton a common word?

phytoplankton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.