(n)aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding, Syn.branchiopodan, branchiopod
(n)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 crustacean
[カイアシるい(カイアシ類);かいあしるい(橈脚類);とうきゃくるい(橈脚類);じょうきゃくるい(橈脚類), kaiashi rui ( kaiashi rui ); kaiashirui ( tou ashi rui ); toukyakurui ( tou ashi ru](n) copepods (small crustaceans of subclass Copepoda)[Add to Longdo]