noun
- small aquatic crustaceans with leaf-like swimming appendages, including water fleas, fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp
Usage: zoology; plural form
Examples
- Branchiopods are commonly found in temporary pools and ponds.
- The scientist studied various branchiopods in the freshwater lake.
- Brine shrimp are well-known branchiopods used as fish food.
- These branchiopods have distinctive feathery swimming legs.
- The pond was teeming with tiny branchiopods after the spring rains.
- Fairy shrimp are delicate branchiopods that live in seasonal wetlands.