Definition of copepod crustacean Copepod crustacean
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What does copepod crustacean mean?
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| copepod crustacean - minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | ||
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| crustacean any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | ||
| copepoda, subclass copepoda minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans | ||
| plankton the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water | ||
| britt, brit 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 | ||
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