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CRUSTACEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas
Synonyms:
class Crustacea; Crustacea
Classified under:
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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