Definitions for isopods

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isopods i·so·pod

Spelling: [ahy-suh-pod]

IPA: /ˈaɪ səˌpɒd/

Isopods is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in isopods (dioopss).

Definitions for isopods

noun

1. any freshwater, marine, or terrestrial crustacean of the order or suborder Isopoda, having seven pairs of legs typically adapted for crawling, and a dorsoventrally flattened body, and including wood lice, several aquatic parasites of crabs and shrimps, and numerous swimming or bottom-dwelling species.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Isopoda.
2. having the feet all alike, or similar in character.

Origin of isopods

From the New Latin word Isopoda, dating back to 1825-35. See iso-, -pod

Examples for isopods

This parasite is an isopod (Bopyrus), the appendages of which are imperfectly developed.

In his first article he mistakes a species of the myriapod genus Glomeris for the isopod genus Armadillo.

Bucholz has recently described a new kind of isopod, allied to the lyriopes, which lives on the Hemioniscus.

The male of this isopod, which inhabits the bay of Christiansand, is not yet known.

This little crustacean is associated in its work on submerged timber with the isopod Limnoria lignorum.

He concludes that they were more like what one would expect in an isopod.