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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CUMACEAN

From New Latin cuma, from Greek kuma (see cyma) + -ean.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CUMACEAN

cumacean  [kjʊˈmeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUMACEAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cumacean can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES CUMACEAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cumacean

Cumacea

Cumacea is an order of small marine crustaceans of the superorder Peracarida, occasionally called hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Their unique appearance and uniform body plan makes them easy to distinguish from other crustaceans. They live in soft-bottoms such as mud and sand, mostly in the marine environment. There are more than 1,500 of species of cumaceans formally described. The species diversity of Cumacea increases with depth.

Definition of cumacean in the English dictionary

The definition of cumacean in the dictionary is any small malacostracan marine crustacean of the Cumacea family, mostly dwelling on the sea bed but sometimes found among the plankton. Other definition of cumacean is of, relating to, or belonging to the Cumacea.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CUMACEAN


affirmation
ˌæfəˈmeɪʃən
animation
ˌænɪˈmeɪʃən
approximation
əˌprɒksɪˈmeɪʃən
automation
ˌɔːtəˈmeɪʃən
confirmation
ˌkɒnfəˈmeɪʃən
conformation
ˌkɒnfɔːˈmeɪʃən
defamation
ˌdɛfəˈmeɪʃən
deformation
ˌdiːfɔːˈmeɪʃən
estimation
ˌɛstɪˈmeɪʃən
exclamation
ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃən
formation
fɔːˈmeɪʃən
inflammation
ˌɪnfləˈmeɪʃən
information
ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃən
misinformation
ˌmɪsɪnfəˈmeɪʃən
proclamation
ˌprɒkləˈmeɪʃən
reclamation
ˌrɛkləˈmeɪʃən
reformation
ˌrɛfəˈmeɪʃən
sublimation
ˌsʌblɪˈmeɪʃən
summation
sʌˈmeɪʃən
transformation
ˌtrænsfəˈmeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUMACEAN

cum
cum dividend
cum grano salis
cum laude
cum new
Cumae
Cumaean
cumaric
cumarin
cumarone
cumbent
cumber
cumberbund
cumberer
Cumberland
Cumberland sauce
cumberless
cumberment
Cumbernauld
cumbersome

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUMACEAN

Antarctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
cetacean
crustacean
euphausiacean
gallinacean
Indian Ocean
interocean
Joycean
laodicean
Medicean
ocean
ostracean
Pacific Ocean
panacean
Piscean
Southern Ocean
testacean
Western Ocean

Synonyms and antonyms of cumacean in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cumacean» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUMACEAN

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The translations of cumacean from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cumacean» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cumacean
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cumáceos
570 millions of speakers

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cumacean
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cumacean
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

cumacean
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кумовых
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cumacean
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cumacean
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cumacean
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cumacean
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cumacean
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cumacean
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cumacean
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cumase
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cumacean
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cumacean
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्युमेसान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cumacean
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cumacean
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cumacean
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кумових
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cumacean
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

cumacean
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cumacean
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

cumacean
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

cumacean
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cumacean

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUMACEAN»

The term «cumacean» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.924 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CUMACEAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cumacean

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUMACEAN»

Discover the use of cumacean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cumacean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Changing Scenes in the Natural Sciences, 1776-1976: Academy ...
PROTOBRANCH STATIONS FROM DAKAR- RECIFE TRANSECT CUMACEAN STATIONS FROM DAKAR- RECIFE TRANSECT 60 40 r 20- -GAY HEAD- BERMUDA REFERENCE DEPTH OF 1400 METERS GAY HEAD -BERMUDA ...
Clyde E. Goulden, 2008
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Issues in Life Sciences—Zoology: 2013 Edition
According to news reporting out of Kanagawa, Japan, by VerticalNews editors, researchers stated “Cumacean crustaceans in the genus Eudorella (Leuconidae) from Japanese waters, in the Northwest Pacific, were examined and the following  ...
‎2013
3
Meddelelser om Gronland
It consisted mainly of amphi- pods (6 species), of 3 cumacean species, and 1 isopod species (Table 4, Figs 4 and 5). Species of the "common species assemblage" occurred at all stations, but were most frequent in the Norske and Westwind ...
4
Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America
Two websites are also devoted to this crustacean group: http://www.coms.usm. edu/cumacean/ and http://nature.umesci.maine.edu/cuma- cea.html. Historical background: Published information on the Cumacea of the Pacific coast of Costa  ...
Ingo S. Wehrtmann, Jorge Cort©♭s, 2008
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Asian Marine Biology 10 (1993)
a half of the entire cumacean fauna of the area comprises relatively warm-water ( low-boreal) species; the new species are also low boreal and are mostly assigned to warm-water genera. The pattern of vertical distribution of Cumacea is as ...
Brian Morton, 1993
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Deep-Sea Biology: A Natural History of Organisms at the ...
Analysis of cumacean distributions along depth transects in the Atlantic show that they are quite sharply zones with respect to depth (Grassle, Sanders & Smith, 1979). Although able to swim off the bottom, cumaceans usually inhabit shallow ...
John D. Gage, Paul A. Tyler, 1992
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Dynamic Aquaria: Building Living Ecosystems
... neotens Annelid/polychaete 0 0 15/37% 31/66% 0 Phoxocephalus holbolli Arthropod/amphipod 0 0 31/75% 6/11% 8/17% Narrow range Dentalium entale Mollusc/scaphopod 30/100% 0 0 0 0 Diastylis cornufer Arthropod/cumacean 14/ 80% ...
Walter H. Adey, Karen Loveland, 2011
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Atlas of Crustacean Larvae
Krøyer (1841) discovered a cumacean brooding eggs, and the argument was finally resolved. Essentially all of our current knowledge of cumacean development comes from the meticulous study by Sars (1900a), which remains the standard ...
Joel W. Martin, Jørgen Olesen, Jens T. Høeg, 2014
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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Biodiversity
Campylaspis cousteaui, a new cumacean species from the submarine caves of Bermuda. Revue Roumaine de Biologie, se'rie de Biologie Animale 35(1): 9-12. Petrescu,1. 1996. Cumaceans (Crustacea: Cumacea) from Abaco Island ...
Darryl L. Felder, 2009
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Rivers of the United States, Estuaries
On sand at Alki Point, the isopods, Exosphaeroma? media and Gnorimosphaeroma oregonensis, were abundant, while the cumacean, Cumella vulgaris, and the amphipod, Anisogammarus confervicolus, were common. On algae. Abundant ...
Ruth Patrick, 1994

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