copepod, copepod crustacean - minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish mussel shrimp, ostracod, seed shrimp - tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
time and a half(noun) a rate of pay that is 1.5 times the regular rate; for overtime work.
Used also in O.E. phrases as in modern Ger., to mean one half unit less than, cf. The construction in two and a half, etc., is first recorded c.1200. Of time, in half past ten, etc., first attested 1750; in Scottish, the half often is prefixed to the following hour, as in Ger. (halb elf ten thirty). Half-and-half ale and porter.