Amphipod Definition

ămfə-pŏd
noun
Any of an order (Amphipoda) of malacostracan crustaceans with a vertically thin body and one set of legs for jumping or walking and another set for swimming, as the sand hopper.
Webster's New World
Any of numerous small, chiefly aquatic crustaceans of the order Amphipoda, such as the beach flea, having a laterally compressed body with no carapace.
American Heritage Medicine

A member of taxonomic order Amphipoda of small, shrimp-like crustaceans.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Amphipod

Noun

Singular:
amphipod
Plural:
amphipods

Origin of Amphipod

  • From New Latin Amphipoda order name amphi– New Latin -poda -pod

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Amphipoda.

    From Wiktionary

Amphipod Sentence Examples

  • Another affects the amphipod 's main swimming muscle, inhibiting its ability to move.

  • They are also found in some of the semi-terrestrial and purely aquatic Amphipod Crustaceans.

  • The Malpighian tubes of Hexapods are outgrowths of the proctodaeum, but those of Scorpion and the Amphipod Crustacea are part of the metenteron or endodermal gut, though originating near its junction with the proctodaeum.

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