sb. and a. [f. AMPHIPODA.]
A. sb. An animal of the order Amphipoda.
1835. Kirby, Habits & Inst. Anim., II. xv. 41. Amphipods. Head distinct. Eyes sessile.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., I. 755/2. In the Amphipods the want of resemblance between the different rings of the body becomes more remarkable.
B. adj. = AMPHIPODOUS.
1852. Dana, Crustac., I. 11. The abdomen … partakes of the Amphipod character.
1877. Sir C. W. Thomson, Voy. Challenger, I. ii. 129. The trawl on this occasion contained a single example of the female of a very large amphipod crustacean.
