SUBCLASS ENTOMOSTRACA Synonyms
There is 1 hypernym of the phrase subclass entomostraca. (close relations)
Definition of SUBCLASS ENTOMOSTRACA
entomostracan
Best Alternative Words for SUBCLASS ENTOMOSTRACA
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crawfish | nounn | |||||||
noun • tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly • small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster • large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters verb • make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | ||||||||
krill | nounn | |||||||
noun • shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | ||||||||
shellfish | nounn | |||||||
noun • meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) • invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | ||||||||
shrimp | nounn | |||||||
noun • disparaging terms for small people • any of various edible decapod crustaceans • small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible verb • fish for shrimp | ||||||||
arthropods | nounn | |||||||
noun • invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin | ||||||||
barnacles | nounn | |||||||
noun • marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces • European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | ||||||||
copepods | nounn | |||||||
noun • minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | ||||||||
crustaceans | nounn | |||||||
adjective • of or belonging to the class Crustacea noun • any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | ||||||||
lobsters | nounn | |||||||
noun • flesh of a lobster • any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae | ||||||||
entomostraca | nounn | |||||||
noun • in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use |