Copepods is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Copepods meaning
plural of copepod
Using Copepods
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of copepod
- In the example corpus, copepods often appears in combinations such as: the copepods, copepods and, copepods of.
Context around Copepods
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Copepods
- In this selection, "copepods" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, remove, years, baltic, containing, may and sense stand out and add context to how "copepods" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the copepods are moving and copepods and other. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "copepods" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with copepods
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Polyp prey includes copepods and fish larvae. (7 words)
In the animation, juvenile herring hunt the copepods in this synchronised way. (12 words)
Copepods and other tiny crustaceans are the most common zooplankton eaten by herring. (13 words)
Vector With regards to vector control, a number of novel methods have been used to reduce mosquito numbers with some success including the placement of the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata ) or copepods in standing water to eat the mosquito larvae. (39 words)
The Carter Center fights the disease by recruiting a volunteer in each affected village to pour a mild pesticide into ponds, distribute cloth filters that remove copepods containing worm larvae, and treat victims before they walk into ponds. (38 words)
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. (28 words)
Example sentences (12)
The whales follow the copepods it likes to eat, and the copepods are moving into deeper waters.
The Carter Center fights the disease by recruiting a volunteer in each affected village to pour a mild pesticide into ponds, distribute cloth filters that remove copepods containing worm larvae, and treat victims before they walk into ponds.
Copepods and other tiny crustaceans are the most common zooplankton eaten by herring.
For many years, copepods of the genus Mesocyclops have been used in Vietnam for preventing dengue fever.
However, as a group, the small aquatic crustaceans called copepods may form the largest animal biomass on earth.
In the animation, juvenile herring hunt the copepods in this synchronised way.
In the Baltic, copepods of the genus Acartia can be present in large numbers.
Polyp prey includes copepods and fish larvae.
The copepods sense with their antennae the pressure-wave of an approaching herring and react with a fast escape jump.
These nurture high levels of phytoplankton with associated copepods and krill, and resultant foodchains supporting fish, whales, seals, penguins, albatrosses and a wealth of other species.
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.
Vector With regards to vector control, a number of novel methods have been used to reduce mosquito numbers with some success including the placement of the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata ) or copepods in standing water to eat the mosquito larvae.
Common combinations with copepods
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the copepods 5×
- copepods and 3×
- copepods of 2×
- copepods in 2×