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    BRANCHIOPODAN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feedingplay

    Synonyms:

    branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("branchiopodan" is a kind of...):

    crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "branchiopodan"):

    daphnia; water flea (minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae)

    fairy shrimp (small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back)

    Artemia salina; brine shrimp (common to saline lakes)

    tadpole shrimp (a kind of branchiopod crustacean)

     II. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopodaplay

    Synonyms:

    branchiopod; branchiopodan; branchiopodous

    Classified under:

    Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

    Pertainym:

    subclass Branchiopoda (primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas)

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