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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 fishplay

    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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