EKMAN DREDGE


Meaning of EKMAN DREDGE in English

¦ekmən- noun

Usage: usually capitalized E

Etymology: probably after V.W. Ekman died 1954 Swedish oceanographer

: 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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