Meanings
nounpsammon (uncountable)
- uncountablebiologyThe community of organisms living in the sandy, moist habitat along a shoreline.
Rotifers also are present in the psammon, the sandy habitat along the wet reaches of shorelines.
2014, James H. Thorp, D. Christopher Rogers, Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Ecology and General Biology
Origin
From psammo- + -on, to be analogous to plankton.
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APA
psammon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psammon
MLA
“psammon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psammon. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “psammon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psammon.
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