order branchiura

1. 1.

   copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes

   SynonymsBranchiura

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofCopepoda

Questions about order branchiura

What does order branchiura mean?

order branchiura means "copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes".

What is another word for order branchiura?

Close synonyms include Branchiura. 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 branchiura a common word?

order branchiura 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.