Etymology

tychoplankton

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Today it means: Any benthic organism found amongst plankton because of sea currents etc. Full definition →

Ancient Greek τύχη
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτύχη“chance, luck, accident”
  2. English todaytychoplankton

From Ancient Greek τύχη (túkhē, “chance, luck, accident”) + -o- + plankton.

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