copepod crustacean
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Noun | 1. | ![]() plankton - the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton Copepoda, subclass Copepoda - minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans water flea, cyclops - minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms fish louse - a kind of copepod |
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