Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous small marine or freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda, including parasitic and free-living forms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. Also
copepodous . - noun One of the Copepoda. Also
copepodan .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of very many small
crustaceans , of the subclassCopepoda , that are widely distributed and ecologically important; they include thewater fleas
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Its "cigar" is in fact a parasitic crustacean known as a copepod, but no one knows what the blobfish does with its comical nose.
Where Wonders Await Us Flannery, Tim 2007
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*So that you're not kept in suspense, a copepod is a small marine crustracean (i.e., a little animal lacking the cuteness of a cat) that forms a crucial part of the food web between marine plankton (little plants) and fish.
Yeee---ikes! mariness 2003
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This image of a tiny crustacean called a copepod is one of the winners of this year's Nikon Small World photography competition.
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011
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Plentiful algae amplify the population of a tiny shrimp-like creature called a copepod - in particular, a kind called Eurytemora.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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In this paper the authors report on the use of photochemically active biocides for the treatment of a marine copepod, which is a model of parasitic sea lice.
Fishupdate.com 2009
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Vibrio cholerae is associated with a type of crustacean called a copepod that appears naturally in many areas of the world.
Signs of the Times 2008
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A closeup of Eurytemora, a kind of copepod that serves as a reservoir for the cholera bacterium.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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A closeup of Eurytemora, a kind of copepod that serves as a reservoir for the cholera bacterium.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus californicus inhabits rocky, intertidal splash pools in a patchy distribution along the west coast of North America.
Breaking news about baseball bats ewillett 2008
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A final copepod project involves understanding the genetic basis of a vital physiological process in these copepods-their ability to survive dramatic changes in salinity.
Breaking news about baseball bats ewillett 2008
chained_bear commented on the word copepod
"'What were you observing, sir?'
"'Luminous organisms, mostly minute pelagic crustaceans, copepods; but I need calmer water for it, the good calm water we have had almost all the way. How I pray it may grow quiet again before we leave the sargasso quite behind.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 144
February 20, 2008