malacostracan crustacean
English Thesaurus
1. a major subclass of crustaceans (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | crustacean, |
| definition | : | any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | krill, |
| definition | : | shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | opossum shrimp, |
| definition | : | shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | isopod, |
| definition | : | any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | amphipod, |
| definition | : | a kind of malacostracan crustacean (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | malacostraca, subclass malacostraca, |
| definition | : | largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies (noun.animal) |
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