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copepod

DEFINITIONS OF: copepod

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n 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 crustacean
Types:
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
Type of:
crustacean
any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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