Copepod

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Copepod \Cop"e*pod\, a. (Zool.)
     Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. -- n. One of the Copepoda.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  copepod
       n : minute marine or fresh-water crustaceans usually having six
           pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton
           and others parasitic on fish [syn: {copepod crustacean}]