Definitions for pleustons

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pleustons pleus·ton

Spelling: [ploo-stuh n, -ston]

IPA: /ˈplu stən, -stɒn/

Pleustons is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 494 anagrams from letters in pleustons (elnopsstu).

Definitions for pleustons

noun

1. a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.

Origin of pleustons

1940-45; pleus- (Greek pleûs(is) sailing, or pleus- aorist stem of pleîn to sail, go by sea) + -ton, on the model of nekton, plankton