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BRANCHIOPODAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does branchiopodan mean?
• BRANCHIOPODAN (noun)
The noun BRANCHIOPODAN has 1 sense:
1. aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
Familiarity information: BRANCHIOPODAN used as a noun is very rare.
• BRANCHIOPODAN (adjective)
The adjective BRANCHIOPODAN has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda
Familiarity information: BRANCHIOPODAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan
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)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
branchiopod; branchiopodan; branchiopodous
Pertainym:
subclass Branchiopoda (primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas)
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