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Meaning of "benthonic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BENTHONIC

benthonic  [benˈθɒnɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BENTHONIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Benthonic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BENTHONIC


autochthonic
ˌɔːtɒkˈθɒnɪk
bionic
baɪˈɒnɪk
Brythonic
brɪˈθɒnɪk
chronic
ˈkrɒnɪk
chthonic
ˈθɒnɪk
demonic
dɪˈmɒnɪk
electronic
ɪlɛkˈtrɒnɪk
gnathonic
næˈθɒnɪk
harmonic
hɑːˈmɒnɪk
hydroponic
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈpɒnɪk
iconic
aɪˈkɒnɪk
ionic
aɪˈɒnɪk
ironic
aɪˈrɒnɪk
pythonic
paɪˈθɒnɪk
sonic
ˈsɒnɪk
supersonic
ˌsuːpəˈsɒnɪk
symphonic
sɪmˈfɒnɪk
Tiptronic
tɪpˈtrɒnɪk
tonic
ˈtɒnɪk
ultrasonic
ˌʌltrəˈsɒnɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BENTHONIC

bent
bent grass
benthal
Bentham
Benthamism
Benthamite
benthic
benthoal
benthon
benthopelagic
benthos
benthoscope
Bentinck
Bentley
bento
bento box
Benton
bentonite
bentonitic
bentwood

WORDS THAT END LIKE BENTHONIC

allophonic
aphonic
cacophonic
electrophonic
euphonic
homophonic
megaphonic
microphonic
monophonic
philharmonic
phonic
phosphonic
polyphonic
quadraphonic
quadrophonic
radiophonic
radiotelephonic
saxophonic
siphonic
stereophonic
telephonic

Synonyms and antonyms of benthonic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «benthonic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BENTHONIC

Find out the translation of benthonic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of benthonic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «benthonic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

底栖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bentónicos
570 millions of speakers

English

benthonic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

benthonic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بينتو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

придонном
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bentônicos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

benthonic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

benthiques
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Benthonic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

benthonisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

底生
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

benthonic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Benthonic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đáy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

benthonic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बीथोनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bentonik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bentonico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Bento
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

придонному
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bentonice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

benthonic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

benthonic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

benthonic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

benthonic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of benthonic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BENTHONIC»

The term «benthonic» is normally little used and occupies the 148.555 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BENTHONIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about benthonic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BENTHONIC»

Discover the use of benthonic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to benthonic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A taxonomic and ecological study of selected benthonic ...
The report covers a detailed study of the morphology and ecological distribution of 11 species in 9 genera of gammarid amphipods collected offshore in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Thomas James Culpepper, Willis E. Pequegnat, Texas A & M University. Dept. of Oceanography, 1969
2
Some physical constants for the Marshall Islands area
10 cm Globigerina- Core 27 Less than 1000 fathoms sand Core 4 1000 fathoms EXPLANATION Position of sample In none of the samples studied was the benthonic population found to constitute more than a small fraction of 1 percent of the ...
Joel Howard Swartz, 1962
3
Geological Survey Professional Paper
The incision separating protoconch from the teloconch certainly marks the metamorphosis or change from a pelagic life stage to a benthonic life mode for both. We suggest elsewhere that Trochactaeon was epifaunal as an adult, and the ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1985
4
Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, and Sedimentary ...
Benthonic paleoecology Figure 7 illustrates faunal trends in benthonic foraminifera from the Mancos Shale at Blue Point. Faunal trends analyzed are the percentage of calcareous versus arenaceous benthonics, benthonic diversity, and the ...
Dale Nations, J. Dale Nations, Jeffrey G. Eaton, 1991
5
Pelagic Sediments - on Land and Under the Sea: Special ...
Fossil preservation Foramirip'era The two types of Foraminifera, benthonic and planktonic, present in these pelagic carbonates contribute in somewhat different ways to the diagenetic process. On the average, benthonic Foraminifera are more ...
Kenneth J. Hsü, Hugh C. Jenkyns, 2009
6
U.S. Geological Survey professional paper
They described a shallow-water benthonic foraminifera! biofacies composed mainly of arenaceous genera and species and a deeper benthonic biofacies composed mainly of specimens of calcareous genera and species. In the deeper  ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1969
7
Indian Ocean Geology and Biostratigraphy: Studies Following ...
Benthonic foraminifera, and especially those of great depths, are less changeable than planktonic ones. In addition, the quantitative and qualitative content of benthonic assemblages, as well as the morphological appearance of the tests, ...
James R. Heirtzler, 1977
8
Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinction Events
Depth distribution of recorded benthonic foraminiferal genera (Fig. 4) (cf. Murray 1991) combined with quantitative data on studied fauna indicate an outer shelf to upper bathyal water depth during latest Cenomanian/early Turonian time at the ...
M. B. Hart, 1996
9
The Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic
Distribution of benthonic foraminifera, organic carbon and terrigenous flux Tarfaya Basin Oued Amma Fatma. Lower Turonian benthonic foraminiferal assemblages from Oued Amma Fatma show extremely low diversity (Shannon- Weaver ...
Val S. Clure, Nick R. Cameron, Raymond Holmes Bate, 1999
10
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
The paleoenvironmental analyses presented in this study are based on the following characteristics and bathymetric patterns of assemblages: 1 . Increasing benthonic species diversity with increasing water depth (Gibson and Buzas, 1973 ), 2.

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