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SUBCLASS MALACOSTRACA

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Malacostraca; subclass Malacostraca

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("subclass Malacostraca" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "subclass Malacostraca"):

malacostracan crustacean (a major subclass of crustaceans)

Decapoda; order Decapoda (lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns)

Euphausiacea; order Euphausiacea (small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill)

Mysidacea; order Mysidacea (opossum shrimp)

Isopoda; order Isopoda (woodlice)

Amphipoda; order Amphipoda (small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp)

Holonyms ("subclass Malacostraca" is a member of...):

class Crustacea; Crustacea (class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas)

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