megalops
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See also: Megalops
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]megalops (plural megalopses)
- (zoology) A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large.
- A large fish of species Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “megalops”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μεγάλος (megálos) + ὤψ (ṓps).
Adjective
[edit]megalōps (genitive megalōpis); third-declension one-termination adjective
Usage notes
[edit]- Used exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus normally in the nominative singular; other inflections may be theoretical or rarely found.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | megalōps | megalōpēs | megalōpia | ||
| Genitive | megalōpis | megalōpium | |||
| Dative | megalōpī | megalōpibus | |||
| Accusative | megalōpem | megalōps | megalōpēs | megalōpia | |
| Ablative | megalōpī | megalōpibus | |||
| Vocative | megalōps | megalōpēs | megalōpia | ||
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- English terms borrowed from New Latin
- English terms derived from New Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Zoology
- en:Elopomorph fish
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives of one termination
- New Latin
- Specific epithets