Isopod Definition

īsə-pŏd
noun
Any of an order (Isopoda) of mostly aquatic malacostracan crustaceans with a flat, oval body and seven pairs of walking legs of similar size and form, each pair attached to a segment of the thorax.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of an isopod or the isopods.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Isopod

Noun

Singular:
isopod
Plural:
isopods

Origin of Isopod

  • From New Latin Īsopoda order name iso– New Latin -poda -pod

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Isopod Sentence Examples

  • These are the plate-like swimmerets and opercula of Gigantostraca and Limulus among Arachnids and of Isopod Crustaceans.

  • A large isopod (wood-louse type) crustacean called Anilocra is known to live on wrasse around the Channel Islands.

  • In external form Trilobites are not unlike Isopod Crustaceans, especially the terrestrial species commonly called "woodlice"; and until the nature of their appendages was known, it was thought by some authorities that the two groups might be related.

  • At Cambridge he obtained fossil shells from the Pleistocene deposit at Barnwell; in the Vale of Wardour he discovered in Purbeck Beds the isopod named by Milne-Edwards Archaeoniscus Brodiei; in Buckinghamshire he described the outliers of Purbeck and Portland Beds; and in the Vale of Gloucester the Lias and Oolites claimed his attention.

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Words Starting With

IISISO

Words Ending With

DODPOD

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