NOUN | animal | isopod | any of various small terrestrial / terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling |
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Meaning | Any of various small terrestrial / terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling. | |
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Member of | Isopoda, order Isopoda | woodlice |
Parts | swimmeret, pleopod | One of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming |
Narrower | sea louse, sea slater | marine isopod crustacean |
woodlouse, wood louse, slater | Any of various small terrestrial / terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body | |
Broader | malacostracan crustacean | A major subclass of crustaceans |
Spanish | isópodo | |
Catalan | isòpode |
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