| NOUN | animal | copepod, copepod crustacean | minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax |
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| Meaning | minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish. | |
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| Synonym | copepod crustacean | |
| Member of | Copepoda, subclass Copepoda | minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans |
| Part of | plankton | The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift / drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water |
| Narrower | brit, britt | minute crustaceans forming food for right whales |
| cyclops, water flea | minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming / swimming | |
| fish louse | A kind of copepod | |
| Broader | crustacean | Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton |
| Spanish | copepoda, copépodo, copépodos | |
| Catalan | copèpode | |
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