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“lake”
limnicole (verb), limnicoles; limnicoled; limnicoling: lake
Living or dwelling in lakes.
Creatures that limnicole and their range or ranges:
- Platypus; East Australia, Tasmania
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-cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous
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“lake”
(Greek: lake, marshy lake, pool, marsh)
(Greek: deep, depth; the fauna and flora of the bottom of the sea; sea bottom; depth [by extension, this element includes lake, river, and stream bottoms])
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“lake”
A lake receiving organic materials by drainage from the surrounding land: The allotrophic lake near Jeff's house got its natural substances draining into it from the area of land around it
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allo-, all-
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tropho-, troph-, -trophy, -trophs, -trophically, -trophic, -trophous
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A body of water surrounded by land in which all or most of the organic matter present is derived from within the lake and not from drainage off the surrounding land: Autotrophic lakes are an aquatic ecosystems that are especially productive nutrient rich environments.
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auto-, aut-
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tropho-, troph-, -trophy, -trophs, -trophically, -trophic, -trophous
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A lake in a basin that was formed primarily by wind erosion: The photo of a deflation lake that Jane saw in her biology book was located in a semiarid region.
A lake that is formed along the edge of or within a delta.
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delta, delt-; Δ, δ
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meromictic lake
A stratified lake that does not undergo a complete mixing of its water during periods of circulation; especially, a lake in which the noncirculating bottom layer does not mix with the circulating upper layer.
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mer-, mero-, meri-, -mer, -merous, -mere, -meric, -meristic +
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