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# copepod

«copepod» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tiny animal with a hard shell and many legs, a relative…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a copepod, copepods)

### meaning for a pupil

(science) A copepod is a tiny animal with a hard shell and many legs, a relative of crabs and shrimps, that lives in the sea and in fresh water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copepod/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Copepods are part of plankton, so they appear in science lessons about food chains in the ocean: they eat tiny plants (algae) and are eaten by fish, whales and other animals. Some are smaller than a grain of rice; there are many thousands of kinds.

### examples

- A copepod is so small you need a microscope to see its legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copepod/#x1)
- Copepods eat tiny algae and are eaten by small fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copepod/#x2)
- Billions of copepods drift in the ocean as plankton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copepod/#x3)
- We found copepods in a jar of pond water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copepod/#x4)
- Copepods are crustaceans, like crabs and lobsters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copepod/#x5)
- Without copepods, many ocean food chains would collapse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copepod/#x6)

### note

Countable: one copepod, many copepods. Pronounced «KOH-puh-pod». The «-pod» part comes from Greek for «foot», as in tripod and octopus-like words.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «copepod» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copepod/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.