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BRANCHIOPODA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Branchiopoda mean?
• BRANCHIOPODA (noun)
The noun BRANCHIOPODA has 1 sense:
1. primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas
Familiarity information: BRANCHIOPODA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Branchiopoda; subclass Branchiopoda
Hypernyms ("Branchiopoda" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Branchiopoda"):
genus Daphnia (water fleas)
Anostraca; order Anostraca (small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps)
Notostraca; order Notostraca (small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace)
genus Triops; Triops (type genus of the family Triopidae: small crustaceans with a small third median eye)
Holonyms ("Branchiopoda" is a member of...):
class Crustacea; Crustacea (class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas)
Derivation:
branchiopodous (of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda)
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