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- noun Plural form of
copepod .
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Examples
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One is reduced availability of food for adult females, notably small crustaceans called copepods and krill.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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After analyzing high-speed video of three species of crustaceans known as copepods, researchers found that within milliseconds, each of these wee creatures could use its leaps to achieve speeds of a thousand times its body length per second.
Livescience.com 2010
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One is reduced availability of food for adult females, notably small crustaceans called copepods and krill.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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The region's water supplier, The Metropolitan District Commission, is trying to determine why microscopic aquatic organisms called copepods and rotifers have been appearing in water coming out of a water-treatment facility in Bloomfield.
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Algal blooms are indeed triggered by seeding with iron, just as expected, but tiny sea creatures known as copepods lunch on the excess algae, and they in turn are eaten by crustaceans called amphipods.
Francis Sedgemore 2009
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The region's water supplier, The Metropolitan District Commission, is trying to determine why microscopic aquatic organisms called copepods and rotifers have been appearing in water coming out of a water-treatment facility in Bloomfield.
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The region's water supplier, The Metropolitan District Commission, is trying to determine why microscopic aquatic organisms called copepods and rotifers have been appearing in water coming out of a water-treatment facility in Bloomfield.
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The region's water supplier, The Metropolitan District Commission, is trying to determine why microscopic aquatic organisms called copepods and rotifers have been appearing in water coming out of a water-treatment facility in Bloomfield.
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The region's water supplier, The Metropolitan District Commission, is trying to determine why microscopic aquatic organisms called copepods and rotifers have been appearing in water coming out of a water-treatment facility in Bloomfield.
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The region's water supplier, The Metropolitan District Commission, is trying to determine why microscopic aquatic organisms called copepods and rotifers have been appearing in water coming out of a water-treatment facility in Bloomfield.
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