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COPEPODA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Copepoda mean?
• COPEPODA (noun)
The noun COPEPODA has 1 sense:
1. minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans
Familiarity information: COPEPODA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Copepoda; subclass Copepoda
Hypernyms ("Copepoda" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Copepoda"):
copepod; 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)
genus Cyclops (copepod water fleas)
Branchiura; order Branchiura (copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes)
Holonyms ("Copepoda" is a member of...):
class Crustacea; Crustacea (class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas)
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