Hypernym

noun

any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton

Member_meronym

Copepoda 1

noun

minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans

Part_meronym

plankton 1

noun

the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water

copepod 1

noundomain: animal

Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]

English

Definition

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

Synonyms

copepod crustacean 1
minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish

Hyponym

brit 3

noun

minute crustaceans forming food for right whales

cyclops 2

noun

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 1

noun

a kind of copepod

Member_holonym

Copepoda 1

noun

minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans

Part_holonym

plankton 1

noun

the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water