Crossword clues for amphipod
amphipod
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amphipod \Am"phi*pod\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Amphipoda.
Amphipod \Am"phi*pod\, Amphipodan \Am*phip"o*dan\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. A member of taxonomic order Amphipoda of small, shrimp-like crustaceans.
WordNet
n. a kind of malacostracan crustacean
Usage examples of "amphipod".
We have managed once, briefly, to send humans to that depth in a sturdy diving vessel, yet it is home to colonies of amphipods, a type of crustacean similar to shrimp but transparent, which survive without any protection at all.
Fourteen species of autotrophic nannoflagellates, twenty heterotrophic flagellates, forty heterotrophic dinoflagellates, and several metazoans, including polychaetes, amphipods, copepods, euphausids, and fish.
On his table were scattered a litter of amphipods and copepods with specimens of Valella, Ianthina, Physalia, and a hundred other creatures whose smell was by no means as attractive as their appearance.
Fourteen species of autotrophic nannoflagellates, twenty heterotrophic flagellates, forty heterotrophic dinoflagellates, and several metazoans, including polychaetes, amphipods, copepods, euphausids, and fish.
We have managed once, briefly, to send humans to that depth in a sturdy diving vessel, yet it is home to colonies of amphipods, a type of crustacean similar to shrimp but transparent, which survive without any protection at all.
Musing over his spherical field-bound pond, stirring it with a glass rod, watching the algae twine on the rod, making history among the micro-organisms, the paramecia and rotifers, the euglenoids and diatoms, the desmids, amphipods, ostracods, wreaking havoc among the daphnia.