EKMAN DREDGE


Meaning of EKMAN DREDGE in English

[Ek.man dredge] n [prob. fr. V. W. Ekman d. 1954 Swed. oceanographer] (1948): a dredge that has opposable jaws operated by a messenger traveling down a cable to release a spring catch and that is used in ecology for sampling the bottom of a body of water

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