Amphipod
//ˈam.fɪ.pɑd// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any species of the taxonomic order Amphipoda of small, shrimp-like crustaceans.
"1905, Mabel Elizabeth Smallwood, The Salt-marsh Amphipod: Orchestia Palustris, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, page 18, Most of these are quite large, made by the small marsh mammals, but some are small and seem to be much used by the amphipods."
- 2 a kind of malacostracan crustacean wordnet
Example
More examples"1905, Mabel Elizabeth Smallwood, The Salt-marsh Amphipod: Orchestia Palustris, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, page 18, Most of these are quite large, made by the small marsh mammals, but some are small and seem to be much used by the amphipods."
Etymology
From translingual Amphipoda.
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