MALACOSTRACAN CRUSTACEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malacostracan crustacean mean? 

• MALACOSTRACAN CRUSTACEAN (noun)
  The noun MALACOSTRACAN CRUSTACEAN has 1 sense:

1. a major subclass of crustaceans

  Familiarity information: MALACOSTRACAN CRUSTACEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALACOSTRACAN CRUSTACEAN (noun)

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Meaning:

A major subclass of crustaceans

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("malacostracan crustacean" 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 "malacostracan crustacean"):

krill (shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales)

opossum shrimp (shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs)

isopod (any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling)

amphipod (a kind of malacostracan crustacean)

Holonyms ("malacostracan crustacean" 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)