copepod

English

Various copepods

Etymology

From translingual Copepoda, from Ancient Greek κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”) + -pod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊpɪpɒd/

Noun

copepod (plural copepods)

1. Any of very many small crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda; they are widely distributed and ecologically important.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 270:

     To eat, the whale takes a wide-open gulp of water and closes its jaws to a slit so that as it pushes its tongue forwards and upwards, water is forced through the baleen while the copepods, krill and other animals it likes to eat remain in its mouth.

Derived terms

• copepodid
• copepodite
• copepodology

Translations

any of very many small crustaceans, of the subclass Copepoda

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橈足 / 桡足 (zh) (ráozú)

• Finnish: hankajalkainen
• French: copépode (fr) m
• German: Ruderfußkrebs m
• Greenlandic: illeraq
• Hungarian: evezőlábú rákok
• Polish: widłonóg (pl) m
• Portuguese: copépode m
• Romanian: copepod (ro) n

Anagrams

• co-opped

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French copépodes.

Noun

copepod n (plural copepode)

1. copepod

Declension

Declension of copepod

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	copepod	copepodul		copepode	copepodele
genitive-dative	copepod	copepodului		copepode	copepodelor
vocative	copepodule			copepodelor