copepod

Speech parts

1. copepod - Noun

2. copepod - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.

One of the Copepoda.

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Examples

After a jump, it takes it 60 milliseconds to spread its antennae again, and this time delay becomes its undoing, as the almost endless stream of herrings allows a herring to eventually snap the copepod. Source: Internet

A copepod can dart about 80 times before it tires. Source: Internet

For example: *Adults of Diphyllobothrium infest fish, and the juveniles use copepod crustaceans as intermediate hosts. Source: Internet

If the copepod is eaten by a fish, the larva metamorphoses into a small, unsegmented tapeworm, drills through to the gut and becomes an adult. Source: Internet

Two new viruses have been isolated from the copepods Acartia tonsa and Labidocera aestiva—Acartia tonsa copepod circo-like virus and Labidocera aestiva copepod circo-like virus respectively. Source: Internet

Copepod with eggs (blue). Source: Internet

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