Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small crustacean of the order Amphipoda, such as the beach flea, having a laterally compressed body with no carapace.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as amphipodous.
- n. An amphipodan; one of the Amphipoda.
Wiktionary
- n. A member of taxonomic order Amphipoda of small, shrimp-like crustaceans.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Amphipoda.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a kind of malacostracan crustacean
Etymologies
- From Amphipoda. (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Amphipoda, order name : amphi- + New Latin -poda, -pod. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The creature classified as Dikerogammarus villosus is actually not a shrimp but another type of crustacean known as an amphipod.”
“It's a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.”
“This video frame grab image provided by NASA, taken in Dec. 2009, shows a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is related to a shrimp, where a NASA team lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet and a curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then even parked itself on the cable attached to the camera.”
“A new species of amphipod (a small crustacean) may have been discovered in a cave pool in Summit County, Ohio.”
“A Lyssianasid amphipod, a shrimp-like creature can be seen swimming in this video.”
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“Black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) and thickbilled murres (Uria lomvia) feed on the amphipod Gammarus wilkitzkii.”
“These include the isopod Saduria entomon, the amphipod Monoporeia affinis, the Baltic mussel Macoma bathica, a few semi-pelagic opossum shrimp species (Mysidae) and the common sea snail Liparis liparis.”
“The total number of instars (developmental stages) undergone by most amphipod species is poorly known.”
“Three new genera and 12 new species of terrestrial isopod have been recorded and recently anew species of talitrid amphipod from the top of Mount Gower was described.”
“We have analysed length data for 1,853 species of benthic amphipod crustaceans from 12 sites worldwide, from polar to tropical and marine continental shelf to freshwater environments.”
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