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copepod Definition

co·pe·pod (pə päd′)

noun

any of a class (Copepoda) of small, sometimes parasitic, crustaceans living in either salt or fresh water

Etymology: < Gr kōpē, oar < kaptein, to gulp down (see have) + -pod

copepod Usage Examples

Converse of object

find: In the plankton sessions we found copepods with their egg sacs, barnacle larve andsome diatoms under the highest magnification.

Preposition: in

density: Copepods in large densities in surface waters, which is known to be the primary food source of basking sharks in summer months.

Adjective modifier

  • marine: To build a biodiversity database comprising all records of Brazilian marine planktonic copepods based on literature, collections and new material.
  • total: In contrast to total copepods, Calanus finmarchicus shows a decline.
  • small: The tidally mixed near shore environments support zooplankton communities dominated by smaller copepods and having large meroplankton contributions.
  • planktonic: To build a biodiversity database comprising all records of Brazilian marine planktonic copepods based on literature, collections and new material.
  • parasitic: I approach the business end cautiously, keen to photograph the parasitic copepod that is found on each shark's eye.
  • other: This proposal aims both to simplify our existing molecular identification system for Calanus spp. , and to expand it to include other common copepods.

Modifies a noun

  • abundance: The inverse relationship between krill and copepod abundances thus occurred repeatedly and across a wide range of scales.
  • specie: Allometric relationships of grazing on micro zooplankton for a range of numerically dominant copepod species are developed from the experimental results.
  • taxon: Indigenous Species Indigenous species such as Temora and Acartia are small copepod taxa which are most abundant in the shallow southern North Sea.
  • genus: Calanus is the dominant copepod genus in the North Atlantic.
  • diversity: There was a slight enhancement of nematode and copepod diversity in the region of heaviest oil pollution.
  • crustacean: We provide evidence of large-scale changes in the biogeography of calanoid copepod crustaceans in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean and European shelf seas.

Noun used with modifier

calanoid: There was also a generally good agreement between the abundances of the rarer large biomass dominant calanoid copepods estimated by both samplers.

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