Copepod Synonyms

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Minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. copepod crustacean

Words Related to Copepod

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. zooplankton
  2. calanoid
  3. euphausiid
  4. calanus
  5. planktonic
  6. phytoplankton
  7. oithona
  8. microzooplankton
  9. dinoflagellate
  10. finmarchicus
  11. Acartia
  12. Pseudocalanus
  13. Centropages

Copepod Sentence Examples

  • I approach the business end cautiously, keen to photograph the parasitic copepod that is found on each shark's eye.

  • B, Udonella caligorum, attached to the ova of the copepod Caligus.

  • Brown or even blood-red stripes have been observed in the North Atlantic when swarms of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus were present; the brown alga Trichodesmium erythraeum, as its name suggests, can change the blue of the tropical seas to red; swarms of diatoms may produce olive-green patches in the ocean, while some other forms of minute life have at times been observed to give the colour of milk to large stretches of the ocean surface.

  • In appearance an ordinary Copepod is divided into foreand hind-body, of its eleven segments the composite first being the head, the next five constituting the thorax, and the last five the abdomen.

  • To the extreme development of the carapace in Laura, as compared with the segmented body, it would be difficult to find among crustaceans any analogy more striking than that of the great ovarial expansions in Nicothoe astaci, the little copepod parasite of the common lobster.

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