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nau·pli·us  audio  (nôpl-s) KEY 

NOUN:
pl. nau·pli·i  (-pl-) KEY 
The free-swimming first stage of the larva of certain crustaceans, having an unsegmented body with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin, a kind of shellfish, from Greek nauplios

OTHER FORMS:
naupli·al  (-l) KEY (Adjective)


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