Usually means: Larval stage of some crustaceans.
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  1. nauplius: Merriam-Webster
  2. nauplius: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nauplius: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nauplius: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Nauplius, nauplius: Wordnik
  6. nauplius: Wiktionary
  7. nauplius: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nauplius: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Nauplius, nauplius: Dictionary.com
  10. Nauplius (larva), Nauplius (mythology), Nauplius: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Nauplius: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. nauplius: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Nauplius: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. nauplius: FreeDictionary.org
  15. nauplius: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nauplius: Encyclopedia

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Nauplius)

noun:  (zoology) A crustacean larva that has three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A son of the god Poseidon by Amymone, daughter of Danaus, and founder of the city of Nauplia.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A descendant of the founder of Nauplia who ruled the city (alternatively, Euboea), was one of the Argonauts, and was father to Palamedes, who fought in the Trojan War.

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