order amphipoda

1. 1.

   small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp

   SynonymsAmphipoda

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofMalacostraca

Questions about order amphipoda

What does order amphipoda mean?

order amphipoda means "small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp".

What is another word for order amphipoda?

Close synonyms include Amphipoda. 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 order amphipoda a common word?

order amphipoda 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.