copepod
English Thesaurus
1. minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | crustacean, |
| definition | : | any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | brit, britt, |
| definition | : | minute crustaceans forming food for right whales (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cyclops, water flea, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | fish louse, |
| definition | : | a kind of copepod (noun.animal) |
| part meronym | : | plankton, |
| definition | : | the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water (noun.animal) |
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