Isopod

  

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Isopod

Definition: Isopod

Isopod

Noun

1. Any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Isopod

English words defined with "isopod": Epicaricangenus Porcellio, Globe slater, GribbleIs-, Isopodiform, IsopodousPill bug, PorcellioSalve bug, sea louse, sea slater, sow bugWood louse. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Isopod

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Systematic Revision of the Deep-Sea Subfamily Lipomerinae of the Isopod Crustacean Family Munnopsidae (Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Ocean) (reference)

  • Bathypelagic isopod Crustacea from the Antarctic and southern seas (reference)

  • Guide to the Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Caribbean (reference)

  • How to Know the Marine Isopod Crustaceans (reference)

  • Isopod Systematics and Evolution (Crustacean Issues, No 13) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Isopod

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Isopod

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Eelgrass Isopod, Idotea resecata, occurs from Prince William Sound, Alaska, to Mazatlan, Mexico, on Macrocystis or eelgrass (Zostera sp.), which it eats. The body is brown when living on Macrocystis and green when living on eelgrass. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Isopod

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

isopod

20

giant isopod

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Isopod

Language Translations for "isopod"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

assel (woodlouse). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isopoday

   

Vietnamese 

  

động vật đẳng túc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Isopod

Derivations

Words beginning with "isopod": isopodan, isopodans, isopods. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Isopod" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iaopa, Isocor, Isop, isoped, ispo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Isopod"

Words rhyming with "isopod" (pronounced 'I"so*pod'): Adelopod, Arthropod, Baenopod, Brachiopod, Branchiopod, Cercopod, Chaetopod, Chilopod, Condylopod, Copepod, Decapod, gastropod, Gnathopod, 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)

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Anagrams: Isopod

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-o-o-p-s"

-1 letter: dipso, poods.

-2 letters: dips, oops, piso, pods, pois, pood.

-3 letters: dip, dis, dos, ids, ods, ops, pis, pod, poi, psi, sip, sod, sop.

-4 letters: do, id, is, od, op, os, pi, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-o-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: isopods, opioids, sporoid.

 

+2 letters: apodosis, disproof, iodopsin, isopodan, podsolic, poisoned, poolside, prosodic.

 

+3 letters: adoptions, chilopods, depositor, diplopods, disproofs, doupionis, droopiest, duopolies, groupoids, iodophors, iodopsins, isopodans, myriopods, opsonized, parotoids, phoronids, pinewoods, poolsides, prosodies, prosodist, protoxids, rhizopods, rhodopsin, skidproof, topsoiled, woodpiles.

 

+4 letters: adsorption, apologised, composited, deposition, depositors, depository, desorption, dimorphous, diplodocus, discompose, displosion, doctorship, drosophila, duopsonies, empoisoned, endoscopic, hypoploids, isoprenoid, monoploids, monopodies, octoploids, ophiuroids, opsonified, oviposited, pedologies, pedologist, pereiopods, picosecond, podzolizes, poisonwood, polyploids, polypodies, positioned, priesthood, prodigious, prosodical, prosodists, rhodopsins, shopwindow, springwood, stylopodia, tulipwoods.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Isopod


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 73 6F 70 6F 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01110011 01101111 01110000 01101111 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#115 &#111 &#112 &#111 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0073 006F 0070 006F 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

438581828170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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