Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous small, chiefly aquatic crustaceans of the order Amphipoda, such as the beach flea, having a laterally compressed body with no carapace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
amphipodous . - noun An amphipodan; one of the Amphipoda.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Amphipoda.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of
taxonomic order Amphipoda of small,shrimp -likecrustaceans .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a kind of malacostracan crustacean
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The creature classified as Dikerogammarus villosus is actually not a shrimp but another type of crustacean known as an amphipod.
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It's a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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It's a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.
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It's a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.
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It's a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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It's a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.
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This video frame grab image provided by NASA, taken in Dec. 2009, shows a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is related to a shrimp, where a NASA team lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet and a curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then even parked itself on the cable attached to the camera.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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A new species of amphipod (a small crustacean) may have been discovered in a cave pool in Summit County, Ohio.
New Amphipod in Ohio 2009
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A new species of amphipod (a small crustacean) may have been discovered in a cave pool in Summit County, Ohio.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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A Lyssianasid amphipod, a shrimp-like creature can be seen swimming in this video.
Unexpected Life Found Under Antarctic Ice (Video) | Universe Today 2010
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