Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; 
 some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish; 
[syn: copepod, copepod crustacean]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Copepod \Cop"e*pod\, a. (Zool.)
   Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. -- n. One of the Copepoda.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
copepod
    n 1: minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six
         pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and
         others parasitic on fish [syn: copepod, copepod
         crustacean]