Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun copepod

1 sense of copepod

Sense 1
copepod, copepod crustacean -- (minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish)
       => crustacean -- (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)