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Definition of Nauplius
1. n. A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennæ, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.
Definition of Nauplius
1. Noun. A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nauplius
1. a form of certain crustaceans [n -PLII] : NAUPLIAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Nauplius
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Origin: L, a kind of shellfish, fr. Gr. Ship + to sail.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nauplius
Literary usage of Nauplius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"Such a widening of the conception of the nauplius appears the more admissible as
OF M>'i.LEU founded his hypothetical genus nauplius on a Cyclops larva ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The adult crustacean consists of several segments, but the nauplius is without
joints, ... nauplius of Sacculina. simple and apparently are only sensory, ..."
3. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1915)
"A nauplius LARVA In an aquarium containing copepods or ostracods there are ...
Find a nauplius; the ostracod nauplius differs from that of the copepod by ..."
4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"nauplius, first stage. This and the next arc thr origi nal forms described as
nauplius, by OF Muller. and believed at that time to be adult. FIGURE 12. ..."
5. Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson (1883)
"FISH-LOUSE AND ITS nauplius. to compare these early stages in both groups. ...
Then appears another pair of limbs; and the three limbs of the nauplius ..."
6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"it does not explain several other peculiarities of the nauplius'. ... An absence
which is the more striking in that before the nauplius stage is fully ..."
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