class crustacea
English Thesaurus
1. class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | class, |
| definition | : | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group) |
| member holonym | : | crustacean, |
| definition | : | any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | malacostraca, subclass malacostraca, |
| definition | : | largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | entomostraca, subclass entomostraca, |
| definition | : | in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | branchiopoda, subclass branchiopoda, |
| definition | : | primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | arthropoda, phylum arthropoda, |
| definition | : | jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes (noun.animal) |
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