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Definition of Isopod
1. Noun. Any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling.
Group relationships: Isopoda, Order Isopoda
Specialized synonyms: Slater, Woodlouse, Sea Louse, Sea Slater
Terms within: Pleopod, Swimmeret
Definition of Isopod
1. a. Having the legs similar in structure; belonging to the Isopoda.
Definition of Isopod
1. Noun. Any of very many crustaceans, of the order ''Isopoda'', that have a flattened body, and no carapace ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Isopod
1. a kind of crustacean [n -S]
Medical Definition of Isopod
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Isopod
Literary usage of Isopod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"307) of what is evidently an isopod which is ecto-parasitic on sharks; the design
appears to be concerned only with the feet of the crustacean. ..."
2. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1877)
"STRANGE isopod PARASITES OF THE HERMIT CBAB. M. Hesse has described two singular
parasites belonging ... the isopod Crustacea, and which are related to the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"This pretty isopod has been recorded from Banff by Thomas Edward, and from Ayrshire
by Mr DA Boyd of West Kilbride. ..."
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