| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| periphyton |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pe·riph·y·ton |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p -r f -t n |
| NOUN: | Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin, from Greek periphuton, from neuter sing. of periphutos, planted all over, from periphuein, to grow around, cling to : peri-, peri- + phuein, to grow; see bheu- in Appendix I.
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