CYPRIDS Synonyms
There is 0 hypernym of the word cyprids. (close relations)
Definition of CYPRIDS
Best Alternative Words for CYPRIDS
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barnacle | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces • European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | ||||||||
copepod | nounn | |||||||
noun • minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | ||||||||
crustacean | nounn | |||||||
adjective • of or belonging to the class Crustacea noun • any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | ||||||||
larva | nounn | |||||||
noun • the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose | ||||||||
plankton | nounn | |||||||
noun • the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water | ||||||||
zooplankton | nounn | |||||||
noun • animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae | ||||||||
nauplius | nounn | |||||||
noun • A crustacean larva that has three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body. |