copepod Definition
co·pe·pod (kō′pə päd′)
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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