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COPEPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
Synonyms:
copepod; copepod crustacean
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("copepod" is a kind of...):
crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "copepod"):
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; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms)
fish louse (a kind of copepod)
Holonyms ("copepod" is a part of...):
plankton (the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water)
Holonyms ("copepod" is a member of...):
Copepoda; subclass Copepoda (minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans)
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