AMPHIPOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amphipod mean? 

• AMPHIPOD (noun)
  The noun AMPHIPOD has 1 sense:

1. a kind of malacostracan crustacean

  Familiarity information: AMPHIPOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMPHIPOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A kind of malacostracan crustacean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("amphipod" is a kind of...):

malacostracan crustacean (a major subclass of crustaceans)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amphipod"):

beach flea; sand flea; sand hopper; sandhopper (small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches)

skeleton shrimp (small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed)

whale louse (amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans)

Holonyms ("amphipod" is a member of...):

Amphipoda; order Amphipoda (small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp)