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epibenthos (s) (noun) (no pl)
1. The community of organisms living at the surface of the seabed or lake floor: Jane was very interested in epibenthos, the creatures that like to craw about on top the sediments, like a sea cucumber or a sea snail.
2. Fauna and flora of the bottom of the sea; Epibenthos grow between the low-water mark and the mesobenthos and down to a hundred-fathom line or the 200-meter line.
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