copepod

1. 1.

   minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish

   Synonymscopepod crustacean

   Broadercrustacean

   Narrowerbritcyclopsfish louse

   Part ofCopepodaplankton

Other forms of copepod

plural

copepods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about copepod

What does copepod mean?

copepod means "minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish".

How many syllables are in copepod?

copepod has 3 syllables: co-pe-pod. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for copepod?

Close synonyms include copepod crustacean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is copepod a common word?

copepod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.