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BRANCHIOPODAN

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 I. (noun) 

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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) 

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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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