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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, ecology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: meiobenthos
Antonyms: none provided
History
From meio- + fauna. Meio- is from Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).
