Definitions for Nauplius

Nauplius nau·pli·us

Spelling: [naw-plee-uh s]
IPA: /ˈnɔ pli əs/

Nauplius is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in Nauplius (ailnpsuu).

Definitions for Nauplius

noun

  1. (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.

Origin of Nauplius

1830-40; Latin: a kind of shellfish

Examples for Nauplius

A different name even is given to it by the biologist, who knows it at this period as a nauplius.

But instead of rising to its opportunities, the sacculine nauplius having reached a certain point turned back.

The nauplius, unlike the larv which we have been considering, has an unsegmented body, and has only three pairs of limbs.

It is evident that the Leptus fundamentally differs from the nauplius and begins life on a higher plane.

The parthenogenetic eggs, as in other Cladocera, develop directly, but the resting eggs give rise to larv of the nauplius type.

This is well seen in the nauplius of many Cirripedia (fig. 15) and in nearly all zoeae.

It is also found in the earliest and most primitive form of larva, known as the nauplius.

The young barnacle, called a nauplius, in no way resembles the adult.

And after him Erginus and nauplius and Euphemus started up, eager to steer.

There spring from it the three typical pairs of nauplius appendages.

Word Value for Nauplius
Scrable

10

Words with friends

15

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