minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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