Usage examples (34)

• Its "cigar" is in fact a parasitic crustacean known as a copepod, but no one knows what the blobfish does with its comical nose.
• Plentiful algae amplify the population of a tiny shrimp-like creature called a copepod - in particular, a kind called Eurytemora.
• A closeup of Eurytemora, a kind of copepod that serves as a reservoir for the cholera bacterium.
• They decided to check things out much to the chagrin of the copepod and seals.