zooplankter, n.

zooplankter
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Revised 2017

# zooplankternoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun zooplankter mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zooplankter. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### How common is the noun zooplankter?

About 0.03occurrences per million words in modern written English

1930 | 0.011
1940 | 0.019
1950 | 0.025
1960 | 0.026
1970 | 0.028
1980 | 0.03
1990 | 0.033
2000 | 0.034
2010 | 0.03

### How is the noun zooplankter pronounced?

#### British English

/ˈzuːə(ʊ)plaŋ(k)tə/
ZOO-oh-plank-tuh
/ˈzəʊə(ʊ)plaŋ(k)tə/
ZOH-oh-plank-tuh

#### U.S. English

/ˈzoʊəˌplæŋktər/
ZOH-uh-plank-tuhr
/ˈzuəˌplæŋktər/
ZOO-uh-plank-tuhr

### Where does the noun zooplankter come from?

Earliest known use

1930s

The earliest known use of the noun zooplankter is in the 1930s.

OED's earliest evidence for zooplankter is from 1935, in the writing of P. S. Welch.

### Nearby entries

1. zoophytic, adj. 1808–
2. zoophytical, adj. 1779–
3. zoophytish, adj. 1854–80
4. zoophytist, n. 1814–62
5. zoophytography, n. 1735–1905
6. zoophytoid, adj. 1854–83
7. zoophytological, adj. 1823–
8. zoophytologist, n. 1835–
9. zoophytology, n. 1815–
10. zoophyton, n. 1601–
11. zooplankter, n.1935–
12. zooplanktivore, n. 1972–
13. zooplanktivorous, adj. 1971–
14. zooplankton, n. 1897–
15. zooplanktonic, adj. 1912–
16. zooplastic, adj. a1855–
17. zoopraxinoscope, n. 1889–
18. zoopraxiscope, n. 1881–
19. zoopraxography, n. 1891–
20. zoopsychology, n. 1847–
21. zooscopic, adj. 1817–

## Meaning & use

1. 1935–
   An individual or species of the zooplankton; a zooplanktonic animal.
   1. 1935

      > The determination of the food of zooplankters can be approached in two ways.

      P. S. Welch, Limnology ix. 249
   2. 1992

      > Daphnia, a small..freshwater crustacean zooplankter, is a generalist herbivore.

      Oecologia vol. 92 48/2
   3. 2008

      > Typically, zooplankters will spend the daylight hours in deeper water and rise toward the surface at dusk.

      S. L. Woodward, Marine Biomes i. 30
   life sciences
   1. planktont 1897–
      = plankter, n.
   2. plankter 1919–
      An individual planktonic organism or species.
   3. zooplankter 1935–
      An individual or species of the zooplankton; a zooplanktonic animal.
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## Pronunciation

### British English

/ˈzuːə(ʊ)plaŋ(k)tə/
ZOO-oh-plank-tuh
/ˈzəʊə(ʊ)plaŋ(k)tə/
ZOH-oh-plank-tuh

### U.S. English

/ˈzoʊəˌplæŋktər/
ZOH-uh-plank-tuhr
/ˈzuəˌplæŋktər/
ZOO-uh-plank-tuhr

####

##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- ɬrhingyll
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- iːfleece
- ihappy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- atrap, bath
- ɑːstart, palm, bath
- ɒlot
- ɔːthought, force
- ʌstrut
- ʊfoot
- uːgoose
- əletter
- əːnurse
- ɪənear
- ɛːsquare
- ʊəcure
- eɪface
- ʌɪpride
- aʊmouth
- əʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ãgratin
- ɒ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

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##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye*
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

* /d/ also represents a 'tapped' /t/ as in

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- ifleece, happy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- ætrap, bath
- ɑlot, palm, cloth, thought
- ɑrstart
- ɔcloth, thought
- ɔrnorth, force
- ʊfoot
- ugoose
- əstrut, comma
- ərnurse, letter
- ɪ(ə)rnear
- ɛ(ə)rsquare
- ʊ(ə)rcure
- eɪface
- aɪpride
- aʊmouth
- oʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ɑ̃gratin
- æ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

####

Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.

##### Consonants

b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values

- gguy
- jjay
- yyore
- chchore
- khloch
- shshore
- ththaw
- dhthee
- zhbeige

##### Vowels

- atrap
- ahpalm
- airsquare
- arstart
- arrcarry (British only)
- awthought
- ayface
- a(ng)gratin
- edress
- eefleece
- eerdeer
- errmerry
- ikit
- ighpride
- irrmirror
- olot (British only)
- ohgoat
- oogoose
- oorcure
- orforce
- orrsorry (British only)
- owmouth
- oyvoice
- o(ng)salon
- ustrut
- uhletter
- urnurse
- urrhurry
- uufoot

## Frequency

zooplankter typically occurs about 0.03 times per million words in modern written English.

zooplankter is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands

Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.

### Frequency of zooplankter, n., 1930–2010

* Occurrences per million words in written English

Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.

The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.

For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.

Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.

Decade | Frequency per million words
--- | ---
1930 | 0.011
1940 | 0.019
1950 | 0.025
1960 | 0.026
1970 | 0.028
1980 | 0.03
1990 | 0.033
2000 | 0.034
2010 | 0.03

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.