The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμεῖον“less”
- English todaymeiofauna
From meio- + fauna. Meio- is from Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμεῖον all →
meio-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
meiofauna
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Ancient Greek μεῖον