nekton

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Noun — Sea creatures that can swim on their own, rather than just drifting with the current.

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Etymology

From German Nekton, coined in 1890 by Ernst Haeckel; by surface analysis it is Ancient Greek νηκτός (nēktós, “swimming”) + -on.