View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Copepod.
Copepod meaning
Any of very many small crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda; they are widely distributed and ecologically important.
Synonyms of Copepod
Example sentences (6)
Two new viruses have been isolated from the copepods Acartia tonsa and Labidocera aestiva—Acartia tonsa copepod circo-like virus and Labidocera aestiva copepod circo-like virus respectively.
Second and third place videos included parasites swimming around a dead copepod crustacean and a single-celled organism called Stylonychia creating swirls in the water.
A copepod can dart about 80 times before it tires.
After a jump, it takes it 60 milliseconds to spread its antennae again, and this time delay becomes its undoing, as the almost endless stream of herrings allows a herring to eventually snap the copepod.
For example: *Adults of Diphyllobothrium infest fish, and the juveniles use copepod crustaceans as intermediate hosts.
If the copepod is eaten by a fish, the larva metamorphoses into a small, unsegmented tapeworm, drills through to the gut and becomes an adult.