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copepod

co·pe·pod

UK/ˈkoʊpɪpɒd/ uncommon

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

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Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Copepoda.

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