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COPEPOD

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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Nouns denoting animals

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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