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EUPHAUSIACEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill
Synonyms:
Euphausiacea; order Euphausiacea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Euphausiacea" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Euphausiacea"):
krill (shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales)
Euphausia pacifica (food for jellyfish)
Holonyms ("Euphausiacea" is a member of...):
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)
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