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 |
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Member of | Copepoda, subclass Copepoda | minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans |
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Part of | plankton | The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift / drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water |
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Narrower | brit, britt | minute crustaceans forming food for right whales |
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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 |
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Spanish | copepoda, copépodo, copépodos |
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Catalan | copèpode |
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