amphipod (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *amphipod*:
NOUN	animal	amphipod	a kind of malacostracan crustacean

English > *amphipod*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	A kind of malacostracan crustacean.
Member of	Amphipoda, order Amphipoda	small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans
Narrower	beach flea, sand hopper, sandhopper, sand flea	small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas
	skeleton shrimp	small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis
	whale louse	amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans
Broader	malacostracan crustacean	A major subclass of crustaceans
Spanish	anfípodo
Catalan	amfípode

HyperDic: amphipod