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Definition: Copepod |
CopepodNoun1. Minute marine or fresh-water crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CopepodSynonym: copepod crustacean (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Copepods are small animals living in the sea, a form of plankton, specifically zooplankton. Copepods form a subclass belonging to the crustaceans. This subclass contains 10 orderss with some 14 000 described species.
Copepods are very important food organisms for small fish, whales and other crustaceans in the ocean. They are typically 1-2 mm long. They feed directly on phytoplankton and catch with their feeding legs single cells from the water. Some scientists say they form the largest biomass on earth. They are competing for this title with the Antarctic krill Euphausia superba.
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Crosswords: Copepod |
| English words defined with "copepod": Argulus ♦ Cyclops ♦ fish louse ♦ genus Cyclops ♦ Ichthyophthira ♦ Lernaeacea, Lobster louse ♦ Parasita ♦ Siphonostomata ♦ water flea. (references) |
| "Copepod" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Copepod" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "copepod": copepod crustacean. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
copepod | 20 |
copepod picture | 2 |
control copepod mosquito | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "copepod"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | copépode. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | copepode. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | opepodcay copépodo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "copepod": copepods. (additional references) | |
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"Copepod" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coperpod. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "copepod" (pronounced 'Cop"e*pod'): Adelopod, Arthropod, Baenopod, Brachiopod, Branchiopod, Cercopod, Chaetopod, Chilopod, Condylopod, Decapod, gastropod, Gnathopod, isopod, lycopod, Macropod, mastigopod, Myriapod, Myxopod, Neuropod, Octopod, Peraeopod, Phyllopod, Physopod, Platypod, Pleopod, Poecilopod, Pseudopod, Pteropod, Pygopod, rhizopod, Steganopod, Stomapod, stomatopod, tetrapod, tripod, Uropod. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-o-o-p-p" | |
-1 letter: cooped, copped, pooped. | |
-2 letters: cooed, coped. | |
-3 letters: code, coed, coop, cope, deco, dope, oped, pepo, poco, pood, poop, pope. | |
-4 letters: cep, cod, coo, cop, doc, doe, ode, ope, pec, ped, pep, pod, pop. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe, op, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-o-o-p-p" | |
+1 letter: copepods. | |
+3 letters: cephalopod, clodhopper, outcropped. | |
+4 letters: cephalopods, clodhoppers, overcropped, photocopied, woodchopper. | |
+5 letters: carrottopped, paedomorphic, woodchoppers. | |
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