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    CRUSTACEA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleasplay

    Synonyms:

    class Crustacea; Crustacea

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "Crustacea"):

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

    Malacostraca; subclass Malacostraca (largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies)

    order Stomatopoda; Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps)

    Entomostraca; subclass Entomostraca (in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use)

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

    Copepoda; subclass Copepoda (minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans)

    Ostracoda; subclass Ostracoda (seed shrimps)

    Cirripedia; subclass Cirripedia (barnacles)

    Holonyms ("Crustacea" is a member of...):

    Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)

    Derivation:

    crustaceous (of or belonging to the class Crustacea)

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