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🦐 Relating to Branchiopoda 🦐 A small crustacean
branchiopod

branchiopod

9.9
A small crustacean that lives in fresh or salt water and has many leaflike limbs for swimming and feeding
  • noun
  • /ˈbræŋkiəˌpɒd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : branquiópodo
  • Tiny branchiopods filter nutrients from the water with their leaflike limbs.

Examples

  • Scientists studied the unique swimming adaptations of the branchiopod under a microscope.

  • Many branchiopods can be found in freshwater lakes.

  • The freshwater lakes are home to several rare species of branchiopod.

  • The branchiopod swam gracefully in the aquarium.

  • The freshwater lakes are home to several rare species of branchiopod.

  • Tiny branchiopods filter nutrients from the water with their leaflike limbs.

  • The branchiopod swam gracefully in the aquarium.

Synonyms

branchiopod crustacean
vsbranchiopod
  • Specialized
9.9

A small freshwater animal like a tiny shrimp with a hard shell and flat legs for swimming, breathing and feeding

specifies it lives in both fresh and salt water
branchiopodan
vsbranchiopod
  • Specialized
9.9

A small water animal with a hard shell and many flat legs used for swimming and breathing

focuses on habitat rather than naming a scientific class

Compounds

branchiopod crustacean
  • Specialized
9.9

A small freshwater animal like a tiny shrimp with a hard shell and flat legs for swimming, breathing and feeding

Surface Forms

branchiopod singular
branchiopods plural

Morphology

branchiopod = branchio + pod

Formed from specialized Greek combining forms ('branchio-' = gill, '-pod' = foot) used in scientific taxonomy, which are not transparent to average B1 learners.

Etymology

Branchiopod comes from Greek parts branchi- meaning 'gill' and -pod meaning 'foot', so a branchiopod is a 'gill-foot' animal, a small crustacean whose many leaflike legs help it breathe, swim, and feed.