CRUSTACEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Crustacea mean? 

• CRUSTACEA (noun)
  The noun CRUSTACEA has 1 sense:

1. class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas

  Familiarity information: CRUSTACEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUSTACEA (noun)

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Meaning:

Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

class Crustacea; Crustacea

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)