amphipod

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any small crustacean of the order Amphipoda, typically with a laterally compressed body and differently directed pairs of legs

   The biologist found a pale amphipod beneath a stone at the tide line.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to or characteristic of crustaceans of the order Amphipoda

   Several amphipod species mature sexually while still unusually small.

From New Latin Amphipoda, formed from Greek amphi-, 'on both sides or of two kinds,' + pous, podos, 'foot.' The zoological name refers to the two differently directed groups of thoracic limbs.

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