1. copepod - Noun
2. copepod - Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.
One of the Copepoda.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAfter 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