screw

From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.
more on the etymology of screw
Old French escroue (whence Medieval Latin scrofa (“nut, screwhole”)), is believed to be an adaptation of Latin scrōfa (“sow, female pig”); but this development is not found in other Romance languages. (For change in meaning, compare also Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both ‘sow; screw nut’, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy).
Old Dutch *scrūva possibly derives from Proto-Germanic *skrūbō (“screw”), from *skru- (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keru-, *(s)ker- (“to cut”), and is related to German Schraube (“screw”), Low German schruve, schruwe (“screw”), Dutch schroef (“screw”), West Frisian skroef (“screw”), Danish skrue (“screw”), Swedish skruv (“screw, peg”), Icelandic skrúfa (“screw”).
Compare also Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Calabrese scrufina (“screw nut”), which may be borrowings of the Old French word, or parallel developments.

gloss

"screw"; whence Middle Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="dum">schruyve</i> (“screw”)

cog

the first turn of the screw pays all debts

A device that has a helical function.
An Archimedes screw.


pulga

From Old Galician-Portuguese pulga, from the hypothetical Vulgar Latin word *pūlica, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).


scud

en-adj

scud (comparative more scud, superlative most scud)

more scud (comparative)
most scud (superlative)

From Middle English scud (“incrustation, scurf, scab, peel, shedding”), perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot, push, throw off, shed”).


scud

en-noun

scud (countable and uncountable, plural scuds)

(slang, uncountable, Scotland) Pornography.

a bottle of scud

(slang, uncountable, Scotland) The drink Irn-Bru.


side swimmer

An amphipod, Hyalella azteca, indigenous to the Everglades.


sand flea

Any of various small crustaceans of the family Talitridae (order Amphipoda), that are found on beaches and jump like a flea.


Amphipoda

New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “all over, all around”) + πούς (poús, “foot”)

der

A taxonomic order within the class Malacostraca – amphipods; very many shrimplike crustaceans.


sandflea

Any insect of the species or genus of flying, biting, blood-sucking dipteran encountered in sandy areas.

One of the Talitridae family of marine amphipod crustaceans.


amphipod

1905, Mabel Elizabeth Smallwood, The Salt-marsh Amphipod: Orchestia Palustris, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, page 18,
Most of these are quite large, made by the small marsh mammals, but some are small and seem to be much used by the amphipods.

Laboratory feeding assays employing the common antarctic planktivorous fish Pagothenia borchgrevinki demonstrated that live amphipods are consumed by fish, while amphipod-sea butterfly pairs are consistently rejected.

2001, James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, Deborah K. Steinberg, “5: The Chemical Ecology of Invertebrate Meroplankton and Holoplankton”, in James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, editors, Marine Chemical Ecology, CRC Press, page 217:

We have managed just once, briefly, to send humans to that depth in a sturdy diving vessel, yet it is home to colonies of amphipods, a type of crustacean similar to shrimp but transparent, which survive without any protection at all.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 212:

Any species of the taxonomic order Amphipoda of small, shrimp-like crustaceans.


gammare

A scud, a crustacean of the genus Gammarus


acanthonotozomatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Acanthonotozomatidae of crustaceans.


ampeliscid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ampeliscidae.


amphilochid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Amphilochidae.


anamixid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Anamixidae.


anisogammarid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Anisogammaridae.


atylid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Atylidae.


bateid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Bateidae.


calliopiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Calliopiidae.


caprellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Caprellidae.


ceinid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ceinidae.


chelurid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Cheluridae.


corophiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Corophiidae.


crangonyctid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Crangonyctidae.


cressid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Cressidae.


cyamid

These are callosities: roughened skin caused by infestations of what ‘lice’ (which are actually parasitic crustaceans called cyamids less than an inch long that feed on flakes of skin).

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 271:

(zoology) A crustacean of the family Cyamidae; a whale louse.


dexaminid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Dexaminidae.


dogielinotid

Any of the amphipods in the family Dogielinotidae.


eophliantid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Eophliantidae.


epimeriid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Epimeriidae.


eusirid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Eusiridae.


gammarellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Gammarellidae.


gammarid

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Gammaridea.


haustoriid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Haustoriidae.


hyalellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyalellidae.


hyalid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyalidae.


hyperiid

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Hyperiidea.


hyperiopsid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyperiopsidae.


ingolfiellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ingolfiellidae.


isaeid

(zoology)Any amphipod in the family Isaeidae.


ischyrocerid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ischyroceridae.


leucothoid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Leucothoidae.


liljeborgiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Liljeborgiidae.


lysianassid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Lysianassidae.


melitid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Melitidae.


melphidippid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Melphidippidae.


niphargid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Niphargidae.


ochlesid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ochlesidae of small shrimp-like crustaceans.


odiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Odiidae (now Ochlesidae) of small shrimp-like crustaceans.


oedicerotid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Oedicerotidae.


paracalliopiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Paracalliopiidae.


paramelitid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Paramelitidae.


pardaliscid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Pardaliscidae.


phliantid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Phliantidae.


phreatogammarid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Phreatogammaridae.


phronimid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Phronimidae.


platyischnopid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Platyischnopidae.


podocerid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Podoceridae.


pontogeneiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Pontogeneiidae.


pontoporeiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Pontoporeiidae.


urothoid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the Urothoidae.


sebid

(zoology) Any member of the family Sebidae of crustaceans.


stegocephalid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Stegocephalidae.


stilipedid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Stilipedidae.


talitrid

To cope with daily variation of environmental parameters, talitrids evolved a migratory behaviour, synchronized with tidal and nictemeral cycles, that enable them to locate the suitable patches of habitat on the shore (Pardi and Ercolini 1986).

2012, F.M. Faranda, Mediterranean Ecosystems: Structures and Processes, page 392:

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Talitridae.


whale louse

Crablike whale lice dig deeply into sores and cuts.

1971 Mar, National Geographic, page 411:

A parasitic amphipod crustacean of the family Cyamidae found in skin lesions, genital folds, nostrils and eyes of marine mammals of the order Cetacea, i.e. whales, dolphins and porpoises.

valaantäi

parasitic crustacean of the family Cyamidae


lysianassoid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Lysianassidae.


beach flea

Any of various amphipod crustaceans of the family Talitridae, which live on beaches and jump like fleas.


supergiant amphipod

en-noun

supergiant amphipod (plural supergiant amphipods)

Any of several very large crustaceans of the genus Alicella, found at great ocean depths.


skeleton shrimp

skeleton shrimp (plural skeleton shrimps or skeleton shrimp)

skeleton shrimps (plural)
skeleton shrimp (plural)

Any member of the Caprellidae, a family of amphipods with a slender thread-like body.


amfapód

head

amfapód m (genitive singular amfapóid, nominative plural amfapóid)

amfapóid (genitive singular)
amfapóid (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
amfapód (indefinite singular)
amfapóid (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a amfapóid (indefinite singular)
a amfapóda (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
amfapóid (indefinite singular)
amfapód (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-amfapód (definite singular)
na hamfapóid (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an amfapóid (definite singular)
na n-amfapód (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an amfapód (definite singular)
don amfapód (definite singular)
leis na hamfapóid (definite plural)
amfapód
n-amfapód
hamfapód
t-amfapód

From New Latin Amphipoda, from Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “all over, all around”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).


lawn shrimp

en-noun

lawn shrimp (plural lawn shrimp or lawn shrimps)

lawn shrimp (plural)
lawn shrimps (plural)

Arcitalitrus sylvaticus
Arcitalitrus sylvaticus#Translingual

Various species of terrestrial amphipods (commonly Arcitalitrus sylvaticus), found in lawns or other vegetation.


Gammaridea

Gammarus (no longer a member of the suborder) + -idea

suffix

A taxonomic suborder within the order Amphipoda – gammarideans; many amphipods, formerly almost all of them.

for families see Gammaridea at World Register of Marine Species

Senticaudata

suborder in Amphipoda that contains genera formerly included in Gammaridea.


landhopper

(zoology) Any of the terrestrial talitrids.


gammaridean

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Gammaridea.


ghost shrimp

en-noun

ghost shrimp (plural ghost shrimps or ghost shrimp)

ghost shrimps (plural)
ghost shrimp (plural)

Any of various aquatic crustaceans of the infraorder Thalassinidea, the genus Palaemonetes, or the family Caprellidae.


gammaroidean

Any shrimp of the superfamily Gammaroidea


hyperiidean

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Hyperiidea.


Sandfloh

de-noun

Sandfloh m (strong, genitive Sandflohes or Sandflohs, plural Sandflöhe)

Sandflohes (genitive)
Sandflohs (genitive)
Sandflöhe (plural)
Sandfloh (nominative singular)
Sandflöhe (definite nominative plural)
Sandflohes (genitive singular)
Sandflohs (genitive singular)
Sandflöhe (definite genitive plural)
Sandfloh (dative singular)
Sandflohe (dative singular)
Sandflöhen (dative definite plural)
Sandfloh (accusative singular)
Sandflöhe (accusative definite plural)


talitroidean

Any amphipod of the superfamily Talitroidea


chiltoniid

Any amphipod crustacean of the family Chiltoniidae


land shrimp

en-noun

land shrimp (usually uncountable, plural land shrimps)


valkokatka

valkokatka (nominative singular)
valkokatkat (nominative plural)
valkokatka (accusative nominative singular)
valkokatkat (accusative nominative plural)
valkokatkan (accusative genitive singular)
valkokatkat (accusative genitive plural)
valkokatkan (genitive singular)
valkokatkojen (genitive plural)
valkokatkain (genitive plural rare)
valkokatkaa (partitive singular)
valkokatkoja (partitive plural)
valkokatkassa (inessive singular)
valkokatkoissa (inessive plural)
valkokatkasta (elative singular)
valkokatkoista (elative plural)
valkokatkaan (illative singular)
valkokatkoihin (illative plural)
valkokatkalla (adessive singular)
valkokatkoilla (adessive plural)
valkokatkalta (ablative singular)
valkokatkoilta (ablative plural)
valkokatkalle (allative singular)
valkokatkoille (allative plural)
valkokatkana (essive singular)
valkokatkoina (essive plural)
valkokatkaksi (singular translative)
valkokatkoiksi (plural translative)
valkokatkatta (abessive singular)
valkokatkoitta (abessive plural)
valkokatkoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
valkokatkani (nominative singular)
valkokatkani (nominative plural)
valkokatkani (accusative nominative singular)
valkokatkani (accusative nominative plural)
valkokatkani (accusative genitive singular)
valkokatkani (accusative genitive plural)
valkokatkani (genitive singular)
valkokatkojeni (genitive plural)
valkokatkaini (genitive plural rare)
valkokatkaani (partitive singular)
valkokatkojani (partitive plural)
valkokatkassani (inessive singular)
valkokatkoissani (inessive plural)
valkokatkastani (elative singular)
valkokatkoistani (elative plural)
valkokatkaani (illative singular)
valkokatkoihini (illative plural)
valkokatkallani (adessive singular)
valkokatkoillani (adessive plural)
valkokatkaltani (ablative singular)
valkokatkoiltani (ablative plural)
valkokatkalleni (allative singular)
valkokatkoilleni (allative plural)
valkokatkanani (essive singular)
valkokatkoinani (essive plural)
valkokatkakseni (singular translative)
valkokatkoikseni (plural translative)
valkokatkattani (abessive singular)
valkokatkoittani (abessive plural)
valkokatkoineni (comitative plural)
valkokatkasi (nominative singular)
valkokatkasi (nominative plural)
valkokatkasi (accusative nominative singular)
valkokatkasi (accusative nominative plural)
valkokatkasi (accusative genitive singular)
valkokatkasi (accusative genitive plural)
valkokatkasi (genitive singular)
valkokatkojesi (genitive plural)
valkokatkaisi (genitive plural rare)
valkokatkaasi (partitive singular)
valkokatkojasi (partitive plural)
valkokatkassasi (inessive singular)
valkokatkoissasi (inessive plural)
valkokatkastasi (elative singular)
valkokatkoistasi (elative plural)
valkokatkaasi (illative singular)
valkokatkoihisi (illative plural)
valkokatkallasi (adessive singular)
valkokatkoillasi (adessive plural)
valkokatkaltasi (ablative singular)
valkokatkoiltasi (ablative plural)
valkokatkallesi (allative singular)
valkokatkoillesi (allative plural)
valkokatkanasi (essive singular)
valkokatkoinasi (essive plural)
valkokatkaksesi (singular translative)
valkokatkoiksesi (plural translative)
valkokatkattasi (abessive singular)
valkokatkoittasi (abessive plural)
valkokatkoinesi (comitative plural)
valkokatkamme (nominative singular)
valkokatkamme (nominative plural)
valkokatkamme (accusative nominative singular)
valkokatkamme (accusative nominative plural)
valkokatkamme (accusative genitive singular)
valkokatkamme (accusative genitive plural)
valkokatkamme (genitive singular)
valkokatkojemme (genitive plural)
valkokatkaimme (genitive plural rare)
valkokatkaamme (partitive singular)
valkokatkojamme (partitive plural)
valkokatkassamme (inessive singular)
valkokatkoissamme (inessive plural)
valkokatkastamme (elative singular)
valkokatkoistamme (elative plural)
valkokatkaamme (illative singular)
valkokatkoihimme (illative plural)
valkokatkallamme (adessive singular)
valkokatkoillamme (adessive plural)
valkokatkaltamme (ablative singular)
valkokatkoiltamme (ablative plural)
valkokatkallemme (allative singular)
valkokatkoillemme (allative plural)
valkokatkanamme (essive singular)
valkokatkoinamme (essive plural)
valkokatkaksemme (singular translative)
valkokatkoiksemme (plural translative)
valkokatkattamme (abessive singular)
valkokatkoittamme (abessive plural)
valkokatkoinemme (comitative plural)
valkokatkanne (nominative singular)
valkokatkanne (nominative plural)
valkokatkanne (accusative nominative singular)
valkokatkanne (accusative nominative plural)
valkokatkanne (accusative genitive singular)
valkokatkanne (accusative genitive plural)
valkokatkanne (genitive singular)
valkokatkojenne (genitive plural)
valkokatkainne (genitive plural rare)
valkokatkaanne (partitive singular)
valkokatkojanne (partitive plural)
valkokatkassanne (inessive singular)
valkokatkoissanne (inessive plural)
valkokatkastanne (elative singular)
valkokatkoistanne (elative plural)
valkokatkaanne (illative singular)
valkokatkoihinne (illative plural)
valkokatkallanne (adessive singular)
valkokatkoillanne (adessive plural)
valkokatkaltanne (ablative singular)
valkokatkoiltanne (ablative plural)
valkokatkallenne (allative singular)
valkokatkoillenne (allative plural)
valkokatkananne (essive singular)
valkokatkoinanne (essive plural)
valkokatkaksenne (singular translative)
valkokatkoiksenne (plural translative)
valkokatkattanne (abessive singular)
valkokatkoittanne (abessive plural)
valkokatkoinenne (comitative plural)
valkokatkansa (nominative singular)
valkokatkansa (nominative plural)
valkokatkansa (accusative nominative singular)
valkokatkansa (accusative nominative plural)
valkokatkansa (accusative genitive singular)
valkokatkansa (accusative genitive plural)
valkokatkansa (genitive singular)
valkokatkojensa (genitive plural)
valkokatkainsa (genitive plural rare)
valkokatkaansa (partitive singular)
valkokatkojaan (partitive plural)
valkokatkojansa (partitive plural)
valkokatkassaan (inessive singular)
valkokatkassansa (inessive singular)
valkokatkoissaan (inessive plural)
valkokatkoissansa (inessive plural)
valkokatkastaan (elative singular)
valkokatkastansa (elative singular)
valkokatkoistaan (elative plural)
valkokatkoistansa (elative plural)
valkokatkaansa (illative singular)
valkokatkoihinsa (illative plural)
valkokatkallaan (adessive singular)
valkokatkallansa (adessive singular)
valkokatkoillaan (adessive plural)
valkokatkoillansa (adessive plural)
valkokatkaltaan (ablative singular)
valkokatkaltansa (ablative singular)
valkokatkoiltaan (ablative plural)
valkokatkoiltansa (ablative plural)
valkokatkalleen (allative singular)
valkokatkallensa (allative singular)
valkokatkoilleen (allative plural)
valkokatkoillensa (allative plural)
valkokatkanaan (essive singular)
valkokatkanansa (essive singular)
valkokatkoinaan (essive plural)
valkokatkoinansa (essive plural)
valkokatkakseen (singular translative)
valkokatkaksensa (singular translative)
valkokatkoikseen (plural translative)
valkokatkoiksensa (plural translative)
valkokatkattaan (abessive singular)
valkokatkattansa (abessive singular)
valkokatkoittaan (abessive plural)
valkokatkoittansa (abessive plural)
valkokatkoineen (comitative plural)
valkokatkoinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈʋɑ̝lko̞ˌkɑ̝t̪kɑ̝]


pram bug

The double pairs of compound eyes of the small but sinister Pram bug, which allow it to scan for prey and danger at the same time.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107:


puça de mar

Talitrus saltator, a species of sandhopper commonly found on European beaches.


Strandfloh

de-noun

Strandfloh m (strong, genitive Strandflohes or Strandflohs, plural Strandflöhe)

Strandflohes (genitive)
Strandflohs (genitive)
Strandflöhe (plural)
Strandfloh (nominative singular)
Strandflöhe (definite nominative plural)
Strandflohes (genitive singular)
Strandflohs (genitive singular)
Strandflöhe (definite genitive plural)
Strandfloh (dative singular)
Strandflohe (dative singular)
Strandflöhen (dative definite plural)
Strandfloh (accusative singular)
Strandflöhe (accusative definite plural)


puça d'aigua

daphnia (water flea of the genus Daphnia)


Liljeborgioidea

A taxonomic superfamily within the suborder Gammaridea – liljeborgioids; certain gammaridean amphipods.


Amphilochidea

A taxonomic suborder within the order Amphipoda – many amphipods.